Pastor Carl Lentz has been fired from his position as head over Hillsong Church East Coast. In a statement on Hillsong Church's website, Senior Pastor Brian Houston said his employment was t...
The Prime Minister has been asked to recognise the importance of religious gatherings and if churches can re-open as soon as possible. Places of worship will be closed from Thursday in England for fou...
An Indonesian pastor and Bible translator had been tortured and killed at the hands of the military, according to a new report by the country's human rights commission. The commissi...
Guidelines have been published on how local Remembrance Sunday activities can take place, ahead of tough new coronavirus restrictions for England. Only limited communal singing is permitted, events sh...
The UK’s chief scientific adviser has admitted to the Science and Technology committee that scientists working on the pandemic “haven’t got good evidence” to justify imposing t...
Forcing elderly veterans to stand outside on Remembrance Sunday because of a lockdown ban on communal church worship has been branded "imbecilic". Peers at Westminster highlighted steps alre...
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has joined a host of other faith leaders in calling for the government to permit public worship during the upcoming lockdown in England. The group l...
Candles have been lit at York Minster as part of a Day to Remember, marking those who have died during 2020. Families were welcomed into the cathedral on Monday - All Souls' Day - to pray and to l...
The Vatican says Pope Francis's comments on same-sex civil unions were taken out of context in a documentary that spliced together parts of an old interview, but still confirmed his belief that ga...
Royal Mail is celebrating Christmas with a series of six special stamps telling the story of the Nativity through stained-glass windows. Scenes from windows in six churches across the country, coverin...
A group of church leaders has said it will sue the government over its decision to close churches in the new lockdown set to begin on Thursday. Seventy-one church leaders have signed the pre-act...
Senior clergy members say they were not consulted over provisions for a second national lockdown and will write to the Government to question why "certain exemptions" have not been made. The...
US megachurch pastor Samuel Rodriguez has praised Donald Trump for valuing input for faith leaders more than the past two American presidents. Pastor Rodriguez, senior Pastor of New Season Chris...
As of Friday 30th October, one church and its supportive community has served 5,000 meals for free to people in need over the last six months. Great Lumley Methodist Church near Durham started t...
A Greek Orthodox priest was shot on Saturday while he was closing his church in the French city of Lyon, police said. He has been named locally as Fr Nikolaos Kakovelakis. The priest, a Gre...
England’s Catholic Church has strongly criticised the Government for banning communal worship in the country’s new lockdown, saying such gatherings have been a great help to the nation&rsq...
There will be no church services for just under a month, starting from Thursday 5th November and due to end Wednesday 2nd December. The Prime Minister did not mention Places of Worship in his Do...
Mourners have lit candles and prayed silently to honour three people killed in a knife attack at a church, as France heightened security at potential targets amid outrage over its defence of cartoons ...
A fifth person has been charged with the murder of a man outside a church. Lewis Peake, 21, of James Street in Little Lever, Bolton, was charged with joint enterprise murder and conspiracy to rob foll...
Peterborough Cathedral is encouraging its visitors to confront the emotion toll Covid has had on their lives through displays and Bible verses to respond with. The Cathedral has created a 'p...
