Predict who the next pope will be at your peril. An old Italian saying warns against putting faith, or money, in any presumed front-runner ahead of the conclave, the closed-door gathering of cardina...
Tributes have been flooding in after Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday. He was 88, and had recently suffered a serious bout of double pneumo...
Pope Francis, the 266th leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88. The pontiff had been suffering from a respiratory infection that developed into double pneumonia. Vatican Cardin...
Easter for Palestinian Christians has been fraught, as Israeli forces have barred many from entering Jerusalem to attend the church of the Holy Sepulchre. A video circulated online shows officers sho...
Pope Francis entered St. Peter's Square on Sunday in an open-air popemobile for the first time since surviving double pneumonia, greeting tens of thousands of Catholics after the Vatican's cel...
A Christian man accused of blasphemy in the eastern Pakistani town of Jaranwala will appeal against a death sentence handed down by an anti-terrorism court, his lawyer said on Saturday. The 36-year ...
U.S. Vice President JD Vance went to the Vatican on Saturday to meet senior Catholic Church officials who have been sharply critical of his administration's policies, in the first such in-person...
This year, all Christians will celebrate Easter on the same day – a rare alignment between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Easter is a multi-day festival based on days of the week rather than fi...
Pope Francis, still recovering from double pneumonia, paid a surprise visit on Thursday to Rome's Regina Coeli, one of Italy's most overcrowded prisons, to offer well-wishes to inmates ahead o...
US pastor John MacArthur has said he is ready to return to the pulpit after a period of ill health. Rumours of his death had circulated online after the popular preacher temporarily stepped down from ...
China has officially outlawed foreign missionaries from sharing their faith in the country without pre-state approval. It will come into effect from 1st May, marking a further tightening of restric...
A San Francisco-based software company has changed its non profit discount policy following a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by a Christian organisation. Holy Sexuality is a nonprofit ministr...
A former church building in Heerlen, the Netherlands, is set to be turned into a public swimming pool. Its entrance will be marked by a halo-shaped light, and swimmers will walk down the church’s ai...
There's been a fresh wave of fatal attacks on Christians in Nigeria's Plateau State by Islamist Fulani herdsmen. The violence took place in Bokkos County, prompting the state’s governor to d...
Pope Francis has ordered the suppression of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a lay movement based in Peru, along with three related groups, following decades of abuse allegations and a thorough Vatic...
US rapper Snoop Dogg is to pay tribute to his late mother, Beverly Tate, with a new gospel album. Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, the rapper announced that he will be honouring his church roots with h...
An American pastor kidnapped during a church service in South Africa has been rescued following a "high-intensity shoot-out", police have said. Josh Sullivan was found unharmed in Gqeberha on Tuesday...
The US State Department has issued a request to employees that they report any incidents of “anti-Christian bias” which might have taken place under the Biden administration. “The task force wil...
Hollywood star Will Smith has spoken about how he has learned to "trust himself and God". Speaking with the American Christian rapper Lacrae the actor said he'd done a lot of "inward work" and r...
A church service livestream in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy captured the moment Russian ballistic missiles struck the city on Sunday, with explosions echoing through the sanctuary mid-sermon. I...
