The Church Online Platform, a digital tool enabling churches to stream their own services and build community online, has seen 42,000 churches sign up to use its platform this year. The platform laun...
A church in the US state of Texas is giving away $100,000 to senior citizens who are struggling to make their rent payments. The 15,000-strong Inspiring Body of Christ Church in Dallas, Texas, announc...
The first-ever audio Bible voiced entirely by women has been released. The project was developed by an organisation named 'Courage for Life', led by Bible teacher Ann White, whose aim is to “s...
A much-loved church leader has died after contracting Covid-19. Pastor Bob Bryant of the Water of Life Community Church in Fontana, California, died just a week after being hospitalised with the virus...
Justin Welby has condemned the killing of at least 110 farmers in Nigeria by extremist group Boko Haram. The attack happened in the village of Koshobe and other rural communities in Borno State, wher...
Christian relief charities and other humanitarian organisations have written a joint letter to Secretary General of United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, urging international assistance for Eritrean ...
Franklin Graham has spoken of a major increase in the number of people who've accepted Christ in 2020. The president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) and Samaritan's...
Starbuck says it did not fire Betsy Fresse for not wearing a top that supported LGBTQ+ Pride. However, she has filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination. Mrs Fresse, who worked at a Starbucks in New Je...
A synagogue in New York has been fined $15,000 (£11,200) for violating Covid-19 restrictions by holding a massive wedding. The Hasidic wedding was held at Yetev Lev D’Satmar synagogue in Williamsburg,...
A British archaeologist has said there is a "strong case to be made" that a house excavated in Nazareth is the childhood home of Jesus Christ. Professor Ken Dark of the University of Reading has spent...
Suspected Islamic militants have murdered four Christians in a remote Indonesian village. The killers beheaded one of the believers and slit the throats of the three others, before burning down all of...
The UK Government has taken a stand against gender-based sexual violence. Last week it launched a policy paper entitled “Declaration of humanity by leaders of faith and leaders of belief”. The documen...
Sectarian violence has broken out in an Egyptian village. Hundreds of local Muslim villagers in Barsha in Minya governorate attacked the homes and properties of local Christians on Wednesday. Accordin...
Pope Francis is encouraging Argentine women who are protesting a proposed new law to legalise abortion, saying the protection of life is above all a matter of human ethics. In the letter to the women ...
"I would say being a Christian in Armenia today is being on the Cross, feeling the physical and emotional torture of the crucifixion. And, more painfully, the abandonment by fellow Christians around t...
A hashtag calling for Catholic priests to be burned alive has been allowed to spread across social media in Spain, despite the country having restrictions in place to prevent hate speech. The call to...
The United States Supreme Court has stepped in to prohibit further Covid-19 restrictions from being imposed on churches in New York. This is the first significant decision that has been swayed by the ...
Hundreds of people are reported to have died in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia. Earlier this month, an armed conflict between the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front (TPLF) and the central g...
An American pastor who sends scripture-filled helium balloons across the border into North Korea is now facing criminal prosecution. South Korean police have recommended that Pastor Eric Foley and his...
Human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has expressed concern over an uptick in the state-led persecution of human rights advocates. Several leading figures involved in the prot...
