South Africa's ruling party suffered its worst election setback since taking power at the end of apartheid, just days after its leader said it would be in gover The African National Congress (ANC) lo...
Desmond Tutu has reportedly accused South Africa's President of spending unjustified sums of public money on a private estate and betraying those who struggled The Archbishop Emeritus, who led the t...
The Pope's midnight mass on Christmas Eve has been dropped by the state broadcaster in South Africa in a decision described as "disrespectful treatment" of the The South African Broadcasting Corpora...
Football in South America is asking the Vatican for help after it signed an agreement with the Holy See. The governing body of South American football, CONMEBOL, has had its last three presidents arr...
A church in South Carolina has had its 125-year-old windows broken as well as a pro- Islam message spray-painted to it, just hours after celebrating Palm Sunday The words "Submit to God thru Islam" a...
A church in the US will ordain transgender ministers. The First Baptist Church of Greenville, in South Carolina, has decided it will allow LGBT and transgender ministers to be ordained, after six mon...
A South Carolina church has sheltered hundreds of young children after a shooting at their primary school. Pupils at Townville Elementary School were evacuated after a teenager opened fire, wounding ...
A Christian group in South Korea has cancelled plans to put a new Christmas-tree-shaped tower with a cross near the border with North Korea, over concerns it co North and South Korea are technically ...
A South Korean missionary's been stabbed to death in America, at a homeless shelter where he worked as a cook. Chung Hwan Park had been working at Anna Mountain Prayer Church Retreat Center in Urbana...
South Korean priests have publicly celebrated Mass in the world's so-called most dangerous country to be a Christian - North Korea. The delegation of 12 priests from the Catholic Priest's Association...
A South Sudanese bishop has accused the country's army of committing mass rape and torture amid a civil war. According to Fides Rt Rev Paul Yugusuk, of the Anglican Diocese of Lomega, says he's met s...
Bishops in South Sudan are appealing for the international community to provide "immediate and unconditional concrete intervention" after the country entered a In a pastoral letter from South Sudan ...
Catholic aid charity CAFOD has expressed deep concern at the escalation in violence in South Sudan, as the conflict entered its fifth year on Friday. What started as a power struggle between the Sout...
An international Christian charity is reporting that the crisis in South Sudan is getting worse and will potentially affect millions of people. Aid to the Church in Need and its Catholic partner in ...
As the world's newest country reaches its sixth anniversary on Sunday, Church leaders in South Sudan and in neighbouring Kenya and Uganda have called for prayer A movement of over 3,000 churches will...
null War and a collapsing economy has left around 100,000 people facing starvation and a further one million people on the brink of severe food deprivation.Pope Francis has called for a day of prayer...
A priest in South Sudan has fed 4,000 in a year as the country's refugee crisis intensified. Fr David Tulimelli is hosting thousands of people at the Don Bosco compound amid warnings that over 4 mill...
A Christian activist and peacebuilder from South Sudan met with MPs and ambassadors on Wednesday to call for the international community to continue to support Following the creation of South Sudan ...
The prosecution in the trial of two South Sudanese pastors closed on Friday following the presentation of the final witness in a Sudanese court. Â The court heard from an officer of the National Inte...
Two South Sudanese pastors have been transferred to a high security prison in Sudan accused of five serious charges, two of which hold the death penalty or life Revd Yat Michael and Revd Peter Reith,...
