A senior Church of England bishop has said a passage from the Islamic Holy Book should be read out at the coronation of Prince Charles. Speaking in the House of Lords the former Bishop of Oxford Lord...
The Church of England is telling its parishes to engage with the latest hit game - Pokemon Go. The app, which was first launched in Australia and New Zealand before overtaking dating sites in the US ...
Northern Ireland's Catholic schools could lose their right to only hire people of the faith under proposals. The Ulster Unionist Party wants to end the teacher exemption of employment law in Northern...
A woman from Essex has launched a new challenge on Valentine's Day to try and share God's love with every family in the UK. Wendy Thomas from Southend hopes to distribute a tract containing Bible quo...
The Church of England has released the agenda for what leaders will discuss at a meeting of its governing body, General Synod, in February. Among the topics to be discussed are valuing people with Do...
A man has been jailed for 20 months for causing the death of the teenage son of a Priest by careless driving. Mohammed Zaman, 32, from Wimborne Gardens, Reading, Berkshire, pleaded guilty at Winchest...
The most senior Catholic in England and Wales has said the Vatican was following international law by not giving evidence to the Government's sex abuse inquiry. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop o...
After a blessing from Pope Francis, the Vatican's St Peter's XI is ready to take on the Church of England. The team - made up of English, Indian and Sri Lankan clergy - had mixed results in their war...
The Vatican has arrested a priest and a civil servant on suspicion of leaking confidential information. Fr Lucio Vallejo Balda is still being held in a Vatican jail, while Francesca Chiaoqui was rele...
Cosmetic surgery could be seen as "aggression" that threatens female identity, the Vatican has said. In a new document the Catholic Church outlines its negative view of the surgery which includes fac...
After a blessing from Pope Francis, the Vatican's St Peter's XI got their Light of Faith cricket tour off to a victorious start. The team – made up of English, Indian and Sri Lankan clergy – comf...
The Anglican team were defeated by Vatican cricketers when the two teams met for the second time in Rome. The special match was played at the Capanelle Ground in Rome, coinciding with the conclusion ...
The Holy See is launching a cricket team called St Peter's CC. Catholic priests are being asked to start taking wickets as well as prayers.The Vatican is launching a cricket team called St Peter's CC...
The statue which inspired Michelangelo's work on the Sistine Chapel is coming to Britain for the first time, after the Vatican Museums agreed to loan it for an The Belvedere Torso is a Greek marble ...
Experimental therapy "could have been an opportunity" to help Charlie Gard, but it is too late to start care for the critically ill baby, a Vatican paediatric h Bambino Gesu Hospital had offered to t...
Cardinals attending Pope Francis' Vatican summit on preventing sex abuse by clergy have called for a new culture of accountability in the Catholic Church to pun On the second day of Francis' extraord...
While the latest Star Wars movie has won widespread approval from critics - it's failed to impress the Vatican. The Church's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, claimed the villains in 'The Force Awaken...
Artefacts from the Vatican are going on display in the UK for the first time, as part of a major new exhibition about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites. They're among more than 300 items linked...
A top Vatican official has called Ireland's referendum to legalise gay marriage a "defeat for humanity". The Holy See's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said he was saddened by the vote w...
The Vatican has said reports a terror attack was being planned on the seat of the Catholic Church are "no reason for particular concern". Italian prosecutors have revealed they think Islamic extremis...
