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Three seminary students have been kidnapped from their college chapel in Nigeria's Kaduna state. The fourth-year theology students were attacked at Christ the King Major Seminary on Monday. A furt...

A Christian MP has warned the UK Government to learn from its failures in response to the Covid pandemic and trust the British public to comply in times of crisis. It comes after a damning report by M...

LGBT+ Christians in the UK are being encouraged to take part in a survey to measure inclusivity and safety in churches.  Run by a coalition of nine LGBT+ Christian organisations, the survey wants...

Pope Francis has launched a two-year consultation on the future direction of the Catholic Church. The process will see every Catholic parish around the world asked for their views in a process which i...

Christian human rights campaigners are calling on the Pakistani government to do more protect girls at risk from conversion through forced marriage. ADF International says around a thousand girls from...

A striking new piece of public artwork has been unveiled at a Glasgow Church. One of the walls at St Rollox Church in Sighthill has been adorned with 77 crosses fashioned out of concrete. Entitled &#3...

Cuban authorities are threating a church leader with a criminal investigation for holding church services. Alain Toledano Valiente is a leader in the Apostolic Movement, an unregistered Protestant den...

A Colombian nun who was kidnapped in 2017 by Islamist militants in Mali has been freed, Mali's presidency said on Saturday. Gloria Cecilia Narvaez was kidnapped by the Macina Liberation Front, an ...

Sarah Sands, the former editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme has admitted she wanted to delete the ‘Thought for the Day’ faith slot and move it to Newsnight.  The slot i...

The Diocese of Exeter has launched a new project to encourage more couples to choose church weddings. The number of church weddings has fallen to a historic low nationally, with fewer than one in four...

The Vatican said on Friday its delegation to the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow will be headed by its secretary of state, meaning Pope Francis will not be going. Scotland's bish...

A newly married couple from Tooting, south-west London, are cycling from London to Tokyo in order to raise £5,000 for international development charity Mercy Ships. Matt and Coco Morley, who bot...

Christian DUP MP Carla Lockhart has spoken about how she believes God has placed her in politics to be a ‘voice for the voiceless’. Speaking to Liberal Democrat, Tim Farron on Premier&rsqu...

The Archbishop of Toledo (Spain), Father Francisco Ferro Chaves, has issued a formal apology in response to the backlash following the publication of an erotic music video filmed in one of Spain&...

Five more students who were kidnapped by gunmen from a school in Nigeria three months ago have been released after ransoms were paid, the school administrator said. About 150 students went missing aft...

The Dean of York, Rt Rev Dr Jonathan Frost, has been appointed as the new Bishop of Portsmouth succeeding Rt Rev Christopher Foster, who retired in May. The Queen has officially approved his nominatio...

A Church of England parish has decided to change its original name, St Michael's, to St Mike's Church in order to attract younger generations. Speaking to Premier, the church's lead vicar,...

Charity Aid to the Church is Need warns that many Christians want to leave Syria because of the struggle for basic needs.  Children in Syria are also reported to be scavenging for food as the cou...

France's top bishop has been summoned by the interior minister after saying that the pact of secrecy would prevent a priest from reporting sex crimes against children that were revealed during Cat...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against white minority rule, turned 90 on Thursday, celebrating his birthday with a low-key church&n...