Pope Francis is encouraging Argentine women who are protesting a proposed new law to legalise abortion, saying the protection of life is above all a matter of human ethics. In the letter to the women ...
"I would say being a Christian in Armenia today is being on the Cross, feeling the physical and emotional torture of the crucifixion. And, more painfully, the abandonment by fellow Christians around t...
A hashtag calling for Catholic priests to be burned alive has been allowed to spread across social media in Spain, despite the country having restrictions in place to prevent hate speech. The call t...
The United States Supreme Court has stepped in to prohibit further Covid-19Â restrictions from being imposed on churches in New York. This is the first significant decision that has been swayed by the...
Hundreds of people are reported to have died in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia. Earlier this month, an armed conflict between the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front (TPLF) and the central ...
An American pastor who sends scripture-filled helium balloons across the border into North Korea is now facing criminal prosecution. South Korean police have recommended that Pastor Eric Foley and h...
Human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has expressed concern over an uptick in the state-led persecution of human rights advocates. Several leading figures involved in the pr...
Popular Christian author Tim Keller has been speaking about his greatest fears when living with cancer. In an interview with HTB pastor Nicky Gumble, the American author explained how leaving his wife...
Paolo Gabriele, the Vatican butler who was convicted of stealing and leaking Pope Benedict XVI's private papers in 2012, has died aged 54. Vatican News, the Holy See's media portal, said Mr Ga...
A new report shows a growing number of governments around the world are steadily tightening their grip on religious freedoms, with China cited as the worst offender. The Pew Research Centre analysed d...
Humanitarian charity Christian Aid has launched a fundraising appeal to help those left homeless in Central America after two consecutive category four hurricanes have left swathes of devastation acro...
China criticised Pope Francis over a passage in his new book in which he mentions suffering by China's Uighur Muslim minority group. Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Francis' rem...
Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the US police killing of George Floyd and has blasted Covid-19 sceptics and the media that spread their conspiracies in a new book ...
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbings of two people and the wounding of three others at a church in California's Silicon Valley that was being used as a homeless shelt...
The Palestinian Health Ministry has recommended strict limits on Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem this year due to the coronavirus outbreak. Celebrations in the biblical town revered by Christians ...
A member of President Trump's cabinet has thanked his supporters for their prayers after becoming "extremely sick" with Covid-19. Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said ...
Two people have died and multiple others were injured in a stabbing at a church in California where the homeless had been brought in to shelter from cold weather, police said. The stabbing happened at...
The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism has reportedly said that the UN body that protects significant cultural and religious sites was "not bothered" by the controversial conversion of a former B...
A joint prayer network in Beijing has been shut down by the Chinese state authorities. The Beijing Ministerial Joint Prayer Network (BMJPN) was founded in 2004 by Pastor Jin Mingri, out of one of t...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is urging Christians to pray for Peru which swore in a third president in less than a week ago amidst an ongoing political crisis. Peru is already reeling from the ...
