Pro-life activist Matthew Connolly, of St. Paul, Minnesota, is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his case. Connolly, 42, was convicted and sentenced to 90 days in jail for silently pra...
A Nicaraguan pastor has been imprisoned in a maximum-security jail on exaggerated charges, according to the charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). Pastor Rudy Palacios Vargas is the founder of ...
The family of Gena Heraty, an Irish Christian missionary kidnapped from a Haitian orphanage, has expressed their devastation over the situation, calling it "deeply worrying." Ms. Heraty, along with se...
Belmont University, a prominent Christian college in Nashville, announced that it has hired an outside consultant to review its policies related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The review ...
A Christian convert in Egypt has been charged with terrorism and spreading false information after requesting that his national ID reflect his new faith. Saeid Mansour Abdulraziq was formally charged ...
Dolores “Dodie” Osteen, co-founder of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, and mother of well-known pastor and broadcaster Joel Osteen, has died peacefully at the age of 91. In a statement shared on soc...
A prominent Protestant pastor in eastern China has been formally arrested for selling sermon recordings, in what Christian advocates describe as part of an ongoing campaign to suppress religious expre...
A Catholic bishop in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has criticized the country’s security forces after Islamist militants brutally murdered 37 children during a church vigil. The attack to...
Pope Leo celebrated the largest event yet of his nearly three-month tenure on Sunday (August 3), encouraging a crowd of more than a million Catholic young people gathered in a field on the outskirts o...
The Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney is celebrating an historic moment with the appointment of Rev Canon Dr Jennifer Holden as its first female Dean. With Rt Rev Anne Dyer serving as the Scottish Episcopa...
More than 100 Christians gathered outside Faslane Naval Base in Scotland yesterday to make a fresh call for a world free of nuclear weapons. The peace vigil was led by representatives of Scotland’s th...
A US Jewish global advocacy group has given $25,000 towards repairs at Gaza's Holy Family Catholic church which was struck by an Israeli missile last month. Three people were killed in the attack ...
A Christian woman in the United States has given birth to a baby using an embryo which was frozen 31 years ago. Lindsey Pierce used a Christian embryo agency to ‘adopt’ the embryo from the biological...
A Catholic priest has given a harrowing account of what it was like being held captive for 51 days by armed extremists in Nigeria. Fr Alphonsus Afina was kidnapped by Islamist terrorist group Boko Har...
Pope Leo is to bestow one of the highest honours of the Catholic Church on the 19th century English theologian Cardinal John Henry Newman who was canonised in 2019. He’s to be made a Doctor of the Uni...
Christians in Bangladesh are praying for their safety a year after the country's Prime Minister was ousted. Since the resignation of Sheikh Hasina’s government in 2024, more radical, anti-Christia...
The Bishop of Fulham who appeared in his dressing gown at a church concert and told the choir to “leave his house” has apologised for the “distress and offence” he caused. Rt Rev Jonathan Baker, who w...
A 76-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with child cruelty offences after allegedly lacing sweets with sedatives. John Ruben of Ruddington, Nottingham, appeared before magistrates in Le...
The Vatican has told a UN conference that a Two-State Solution is the only way forward in Israel’s conflict with Gaza. Archbishop Gabriele Caccia is the Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the ...
Hundreds of abuse survivors have agreed to a $246 million (£185 million) settlement from the Diocese of Rochester, New York, marking one of the largest payouts by a U.S. Catholic diocese. The deal, wh...
