Founder of Hillsong Church, Brian Houston, has thanked his congregants – and “huge network of friends” for their love and support. Houston resigned from his position as global lead pastor last m...
A church in Iraq has marked their first Easter services since Islamic State militants desecrated the building almost eight years ago. St Kyriakos’s Chaldean Catholic Church, in Batnaya, saw milit...
Children in Kyiv, including evacuees from other parts of the country, decorated traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs on Friday - but this year they have taken on a more patriotic tone. "Many people are d...
Pope Francis, who has had trouble walking due to leg and knee pain, suspended activities on Friday for medical checks, the Vatican said. The checks were taking place at the Vatican's medical facil...
A scathing letter written by a senior member of Hillsong church has criticised the account of events surrounding Brian Houston’s resignation as “dribble”. John Mays, the church’s head of pe...
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met charity workers as donations to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal exceed £300 million. Prince William and his wife Catherine went to the Disaster Emergency Committ...
Pope Francis has said he has dropped plans to meet in June with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who has backed Moscow's war in Ukraine. Francis, who ...
Police have stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque, detonating tear gas and firing rubber bullets; it is believed 31 people have been injured. Officers claim they were responding to reports of young Palestinian...
The head of Ukraine's Orthodox church asked clergy and the faithful on Wednesday to forgo night Easter services in areas of the country affected by fighting, fearing Russian bombardments will cont...
The ringing of church bells in Sweden has been used to disrupt a far-right political rally and drown out a speech by one of the group's leaders. But it led to the police being called. Violence h...
Pope Francis met Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday, expressing appreciation for Budapest taking in Ukrainian refugees, and Orban invited the pope to make a state visit ...
Intercessions in Ukraine's churches are sometimes different from the prayers families pray at home. Anatolii Babynskyi tells Premier, "In churches we always pray for peace. We pray for an end to t...
Sri Lankan authorities knew about a training camp for Islamic extremists, and were warned by the Indian government about a potential attack 17 days before it happened, yet failed to act, the Archbisho...
Two co-pastors from Hillsong in Boston, have stepped down following the investigation of New York former Pastor Carl Lentz. "In an Instagram post, Josh and Leona Kimes said it has been a "difficult ...
A group of Christians who went viral on social media after worshipping on a flight have been criticized by a US congresswoman. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, who is Muslim did not agree with the sing along sessi...
Pope Francis implicitly criticised Russia for dragging Ukraine into a "cruel and senseless" conflict and urged leaders to strive for peace as he marked what he called an "Easter of war" on Sunday. The...
A group of Christians have gone viral after a video showed them “taking-over” a flight mid-air to sing worship songs. Posted by Jack Jensz Jr., who runs a Christian organisation in the US city o...
Christians across Ukraine gathered on Sunday to mark the start of the Holy season. For Orthodox Christians, Easter is normally celebrated a week after Western Easter as it follows the Julian calendar....
A Christian teacher in Uganda has been burnt and beaten for praying in Christ’s name. According to Morning Star News, Yusufu Mwanje was taken from his house and dragged inside a mosque by his collea...
Pope Francis condemned the cruelty of the war in Ukraine on Saturday at an Easter vigil Mass he attended but at which he did not preside, presumably because of leg pain that has forced him to curtail ...
