Canon Andrew White, known as the 'Vicar of Baghdad', is pleading for prayers as Islamic State (IS) militants continue their advance across Iraq. He said the extremist group were just 2km away from th...
A vicar in Jakarta says a member of his church has been caught up in a series of attacks in the Indonesian capital. Revd. Ian Hadfield told Premier it was initially feared a Dutch national attending ...
The scale of persecution being encountered by Christians in Cuba is unlike anything seen before, a Christian organisation is warning. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has released a new report wh...
A survey by a Christian charity about what makes people buy certain presents has found that funny Christmas gifts come bottom of the list. Sentimental and expen Topping the chart, 50% of shoppers say...
Rapper Big Narstie has said he could have ended up in jail if it wasn't for God. Discussing how he found his faith, the 33-year-old from Brixton in South London told Radio Times magazine he could hav...
Number 10 and the Home Office have both refused to comment on calls that Asia Bibi be offered asylum in the UK, amid reports suggesting the Pakistani Christian Former attorney general Dominic Grieve...
Justin Welby has called upon the British government to accept more unaccompanied children from the migrant camp in Calais known as the Jungle into the country. While acknowledging the French authorit...
The leader of Catholics in England and Wales has given his backing to UK air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, telling Premier it would be "defensible" Cardinal Vincent Nichols said "indiscr...
A traded posed as a multi-millionaire with links to the Vatican and Spanish royalty to defraud an international shipping company of £73 million, a court heard. Luis Nobre, 49, was one of a number of ...
A convoy of aid for migrants in Calais organised by British youth workers has arrived in France. It is estimated that more than 4,000 migrants and asylum seekers are now living in the Calais camp nic...
A Christian digital expert has told Premier that she can see how one in three people check their smartphone in the middle of the night because the devices are a Dr Bex Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Digit...
A Ukrainian Archbishop has been sent to a monastery for a month after being caught on CCTV getting involved in a fight at a bar. Ukrainian news agencies report that Archbishop Mstyslav is seen on th...
A Ukrainian bishop has claimed that the Vatican does not understand Eastern Catholic perspective. Bishop Hlib Lonchyna from the Ukrainian Catholic Church has publically spoken out saying that the Ca...
Ukraine's Orthodox Church has installed a Metropolitan, a church leader, in a move which further proves their distance from Moscow. There has been a clash between the Orthodox Church in Moscow and th...
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has officially gained independence from the Russian church. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I signed on Saturday the decree of independence which ...
Ukrainian police have searched the homes of Russian Orthodox priests and Russian Orthodox churches in several cities, stepping up pressure as Kiev pushes for th The eight searches in Ukraine's capita...
The UN is being encouraged to do more to expose violations of the freedom of religion or belief, conscience, and expression in the US, Australia, and Europe. Religious freedom charity ADF Internation...
The UN has announced that more than five million people - about a third of the population - will be in need of food aid. On Wednesday, the United Nations said Zimbabwe was facing its worst ever hunge...
The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) has urged Sri Lankan authorities to take stronger measures to address hate crim Dr Ahmed Shaheed visited the country earlier this mon...
Christian NGOs are pleading with around 120 world leaders currently attending the UN climate summit in New York to reach a deal on the issue. Prime Minister David Cameron is among those who have gath...
