A pastor has condemned riots that have broken out after the funeral of a black man who died in American police custody. Troubled flared in Baltimore hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, who died ...
Christians in Nigeria are being subjected to 'appalling atrocities' by extremist group Boko Haram, according to the UK Government. Answering a written question, Foreign Office Minister James Duddridg...
A grandfather has travelled to Iraq to join a group of Christians and fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Jim Atherton, 53, from Washington, Tyne and Wear, flew to the Middle East to rep...
There are grave concerns for the wellbeing of an elderly Orthodox Church leader in Eritrea held under house arrest for ten years. The weekend marked a decade since His Holiness Abune Antonios, the le...
American singer-song writer Gwen Stefani has revealed she was concerned that she had accidently copied the lyrics for her new Christmas song from a song she hea During an interview on "The Tonight Sh...
null Pope Francis has received happy birthdays from around the world as he celebrates his 80th.The Vatican released a video showing the pontiff blow out candles on what appeared to be a chocolate cak...
Queen Elizabeth, the head of the Church of England, has played along in a new video promoting the Invictus Games, an annual sporting competition for wounded mil The Queen even got involved responding ...
More than 15 million people have watched a video of the Georgian Orthodox Patriarch baptising children on Facebook. Patriarch Ilia II has been roundly criticised for the way in which he's been baptis...
Pope Francis' official charity is urging prayers for Rwanda on World Mission Sunday, 22 years on since the genocide killed more than 800,000 people in 100 days. Following years of tension, a series o...
Hillary Clinton has promised to put Christianity at the heart of her presidency if she is elected. Speaking at a church the Democrat nominee said her faith meant she had to "face the world as it is, ...
US Democratic Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton says her heart was "brimming" when she attended a special church service in Kentucky. The service combined a majority black church, t...
Australia's Hillsong Worship has praised God after winning its first Grammy award. Ben Fielding and Brooke Ligertwood from the group, formed out of Sydney's Hillsong megachurch, received their...
Movie star Chris Pratt has shared the story of Jesus Christ's birth at Disneyland's annual candlelit ceremony. The star of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise joined a cast made up of hundre...
The number of Catholic pilgrims that have visited the Vatican in the Holy Year of Mercy has so far exceeded 13 million people. Pope Francis officially opened the Jubilee Year of Mercy in Decemb...
A new US tv show "Living Biblically" which made its debut on Monday, could help get more people talking about faith. That's the hope of "Big Bang Theory" star Johnny Galecki, who played Leonard, who'...
Members of a house church in central China deemed to be illegal are continuing to risk arrest by defying a government order that they stop meeting. Emmanuel Church in Henan province was told on 24th ...
A house church in China is continuing to meet, despite being ordered to leave their building, according to China Aid. The Christian charity has reported that the group, central Henan province, ...
Pope Francis has given Sri Lanka its first saint during an open air mass attended by more than a half-million people. Huge crowds packed the capital Colombo's seafront park for the Mass, with some sp...
The level of respect for human rights in China has reached its worst state since the deaths in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, a new report led by a Christi Chairwoman of the Conservative Human R...
An Iranian actress who converted from Islam to Christianity and faced deportation from Sweden to Iran has been offered asylum by the Hungarian government. Iranian Aideen Strandsson, 37, faces prison ...
