Pakistan's national Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) has announced it's starting a new initiative to bring an end to the growing crisis of Christian and Hindu girls who are bei...
A 21-year-old pastor's son arrested on suspicion of attacking three massage parlours in the US state of Georgia has told police that he carried out the shootings to protect himself from sexual tem...
This week marks ten years since peaceful protests against Syrian President Bashar Assad's government erupted in March 2011, sparking a popular uprising that quickly turned into a full-blown civil ...
Police have arrested a 21-year-old man after eight people were shot dead in a series of shootings at massage parlours in the US state of Georgia. Robert Aaron Long was detained after four women were ...
Israeli archaeologists announced the discovery of dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly ...
The Vatican has decreed that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions because God “cannot bless sin”. The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a f...
Federal police have raided a church in Rio de Janeiro where a pastor previously prayed with his congregation for a Jewish massacre. Friday's raid saw literature confiscated as part of an operation...
Politicians in Republican-governed states are considering an array of tough anti-abortion restrictions they hope might reach the US Supreme Court and win approval from its conservative majority, overt...
A federal appeals court has ruled that a pastor, who says he successfully changed his sexual orientation through conversion therapy, can’t sue Vimeo for banning his account and removing videos focusin...
The Vatican warned that it has nearly depleted its financial reserves from past donations to cover budget deficits over recent years, as it urged continued giving from the faithful to keep the Holy Se...
At least six people were admitted to hospital with serious injuries after a private prayer meeting in India's Chhattisgarh state was interrupted by a mob of around 70 people. The incident took pla...
Thirty-five leading aid agencies have joined to warn of the suffering and increased, irreversible, damage if the growing humanitarian needs in Syria are not met and a political solution is not found. ...
The leader of a prayer movement in the city of Thun, Switzerland, and her husband have died in a hiking accident in the Alps. Michèle Käch,25, was the leader of the Prayer House in Thun, a place whic...
Evangelist Luis Palau has died at the age of 86 after a three-year battle with lung cancer. Over the course of his 65-year ministry career, Palau preached in more than 80 countries and shared the mes...
Christians are being urged to pray for Myanmar as violence in the country continues to escalate. A military coup in the country, which ousted pro-democracy leader Ang San Suu Kyi in February, has pro...
The governor of the US state of Mississippi has signed a bill to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls or women’s sports teams. Mississippi is the first state this year to enact such a ban,...
Acclaimed author and psychologist Professor Jordan Peterson has said that there is much about the person and story of Jesus Christ which is "undeniable". In a recent interview with Orthodox Christian ...
Malaysia's high court has reversed a policy banning Christians from using the word 'Allah' to refer to God. The ruling came after a lengthy legal battle involving a Christian woman, Jill ...
A historic 17th-century church, located in the western Mexican state of Michoacán, has been devastated by fire. St James, the Apostle church had a rich history, containing indigenous art which had be...
Popular preacher and author Beth Moore has announced that she is splitting from the Southern Baptist denomination. Moore, 63, is best known for being the founder of Living Proof Ministries and the aut...
