Around 100 children who were kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria have been released, according to local authorities. Up to 315 pupils and staff were abducted from St. Mary’s Catholic School ...
Former clergy, senior legal figures and safeguarding professionals have told Premier Christian News that, despite the Church of England’s repeated claims to have learned from past safeguarding failu...
A U.S. pastor has claimed that Barron Trump is “very close” to declaring his Christian faith after what he described as a late-night conversation with the president’s son. Speaking during an int...
Pope Leo XIV said the Vatican would not remain passive in the face of global human rights abuses. While addressing 13 new ambassadors to the Holy See on Saturday, he warned that the world had become ...
Church leaders in Kenya and Zimbabwe unveiled sweeping new disability-rights action plans after a World Council of Churches workshop in Nairobi on 27th November 2025, which has marked a significant s...
A decision has been made to resume Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem after a two-year pause caused by ongoing conflict in Gaza. The city’s festive celebrations have been confirmed by Mayor Mahe...
It has been an emotional three-week trial for victims testifying against the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans in a child molestation lawsuit involving at least 600 people. A federal court w...
Mark Vega, senior pastor of Ignite Life Center in Gainesville, Florida, has been arrested for failing to report several cases of alleged child abuse to authorities. Alachua County Sheriff's Office...
YouVersion revealed its most-engaged Scripture of 2025 after reporting a record-breaking surge in global Bible use across its family of apps. Isaiah 41:10 took the top spot as verse of the year for t...
A Massachusetts church has sparked debate with its controversial ‘ICE’ nativity display. Instead of figures from the Christmas scene, the manger and stable remain empty, as a sign reads: “ICE wa...
A prominent U.S. evangelical leader has warned that parts of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement are turning against Israel and suggested that some of the rhetoric is worse than the Nazi ...
A pastor in New York shocked a church congregation by announcing that he would be transitioning to a woman and would now use she/her pronouns. Wearing a rainbow stole, Reverend Phil Phaneuf told his c...
An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave following a reversal after a complaint over a student receiving a failing mark on a paper for citing the Bible. 20-year-old student...
The Trump administration has announced new measures aimed at addressing what it calls “egregious” anti-Christian violence in Nigeria and other countries where religious freedom is under attack. In...
A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church's practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo and...
The Church of England has been asked in Parliament about the steps it is taking to rebuild trust with survivors of abuse. Cat Smith, the Labour MP for Lancaster and Wye put the written question to Sec...
A rare 1,000-year-old Bible believed to have been produced by women is set to be auctioned this month, with estimates placing its value between about $880,000 (£690,000) and $1.26 million (£980,000)...
Players from Brazilian football team Flamengo have praised God after winning the Copa Libertadores. Flamengo defeated Palmeiras 1-0 to claim the highest honour in South American club football. Le...
An exemption for “sincerely held” religious beliefs could be removed from Canada’s hate speech laws. Legislation currently prohibits inciting “hatred against any identifiable group,” but exe...
The daughter of a Hamas founder has shared how she discovered faith in Jesus after years of living under the ideology of the militant group. Juman Al Qawasmi described her childhood and early adult li...
