Policing in some areas of England and Wales is inadequate, according to a new report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary Fire and Rescue Services. The report graded areas of each of th...
The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a church near the Nicaraguan capital Managua delivered a Sunday sermon in May that included a prayer "for our priests." The office...
A Christian MP in the new Finnish government has been given a fresh court summons over her trial for tweeting a Bible verse. Dr. Päivi Räsänen is a former Interior Minister and Christia...
The Bishop of Truro, Rt Rev Stephen Mounstephen, will become the 98th Bishop of Winchester later this year, Downing Street has announced. The 63-year-old takes on the role from Dr Tim Dakin who steppe...
Pope Francis will travel to Mongolia at the end of August, the Vatican confirmed on Thursday, indicating that his health is improving well enough after surgery to be able to go to the remotest area he...
Several prominent church of England leaders have, for the first time, voiced their opposition to the denomination's current process to commend prayers for same-sex couples. In a letter, sent priva...
Wednesday marked the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service - founded in 1948, with the aim of providing free healthcare to all in the UK. 1,500 people - mostly NHS staff - gat...
Three leaders of Linfen Covenant House Church in China's Shanxi Province have been accused of forming a criminal "clique" and obtaining illegal income of approximately 780,000 yuan (arou...
Leaders of China’s state-controlled official ‘Three-Self churches’ have declared their “major task” of the next few years is to “change the face of world Christiani...
The Vatican will study the modern-day killing of Christians and try to list "all those who have shed their blood" in the name of Christ since the turn of the century, Pope Francis said on We...
Nicaraguan Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez was released from prison late on Monday, a diplomatic source said, marking a possible turning point in the government's prolonged crackdown on the Cathol...
A church in Wiltshire has hosted a Christmas carol service for the 12th consecutive year. The congregation of Monks Chapel started the tradition in 2010 after snow and icy roads prevented the Christma...
A man believed by his attackers to have been ‘killed’ in India’s troubled Manipur state has emerged from a hospital morgue and says he forgives his Meitei Hindu attackers. Thangboi S...
Americans should reconsider travel to China due to the risk of wrongful detention, the US State Department has warned in an updated travel advisory, with an American Christian identified among those f...
A congregation in France is recovering after their church building was vandalised in what is thought to be an anti-Christian attack. The pastor of the Philadelphia evangelical church in the city of Ma...
A diocese in the Church of Ireland is celebrating the appointment of its first female dean. The diocese of Derry and Raphoe, located in the counties of Londonderry, Tyrone and Donegal in North West Ir...
This week, a court in the British Virgin Islands will hear a legal case between a same-sex married couple and the BVI government over the validity of their marriage there. Kinisha Forbes and Kirsten L...
A priest from Macclesfield was among those arrested during the Just Stop Oil slow march that disrupted traffic in London on Monday. Rev Bill White was one of 34 people marching through Ealing, Hammers...
Pope Francis says the burning of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, has made him angry and disgusted. He said that he condemned and rejected permitting the act as a form of freedom of speech. ...
A crucifix retrieved from the rubble of a church during World War I has been returned to France after being kept in a church in the East Midlands for over 100 years. It’s understood the crucifix...
