Two dioceses in the state of California have declared bankruptcy following an influx of claims filed against the Catholic church for alleged childhood sexual abuse. Over 3,000 cases have been filed af...
A history textbook intended for schools in Ghana has come under criticism from parents and an education minister for how it describes the impact of Christian missionary work in the country. Called the...
The Church of Uganda has welcomed the government’s new tough anti-homosexuality legislation that could see people sentenced to life imprisonment. On Monday, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni sign...
The destruction of villages in north-east India’s Manipur state largely occupied by Christians is continuing, Premier Christian News has been told. A member of the tribal group known as the Kukis sa...
The Vatican urged bishops and high-profile lay Catholic leaders on Monday to tone down their comments on social media, saying some were causing division and stoking polemics that harmed the entire Chu...
Churches from across California gathered on the beach to witness a mass baptism of over 4,000 people on Pentecost Sunday. Advertised as the ‘biggest water baptism event in history’, Baptize SoCal ...
Pope Francis called on Wednesday for freedom of worship for Catholics in China, a religious minority that has faced historic harassment and persecution in the communist country, causing friction betwe...
Roman Catholic Church leaders in Bolivia said on Wednesday the institution had been "deaf" to sexual abuse in Church-run schools and said they were taking action after a series of accusations in recen...
A church in the US state of Arkansas is mourning the loss of their pastor’s two daughters after the family was involved in a train collision. Local news outlet reports say Pastor Chad Fryar from Cro...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has recently unveiled its use of the Bible and other religious texts in training its advanced multilingual Artificial Intelligence technology. This ...
The host of an Australian TV show that came under fire earlier this year for allowing a guest to make an off-colour joke about Jesus has criticised the producers’ decision to air it. Sarah Harris, w...
Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday dismissed his expert on art and restoration for obstructing the transfer of a historic 15th-century Trinity icon to the Church from a...
 Nicaraguan police said on Saturday they are investigating several dioceses of the Catholic Church for money laundering, a day after local media reported that the bank accounts of parishes in the Cen...
Protestors have taken to Jos, the capital of Nigeria's Plateau State, in response to the ongoing killings by a militia often referred to as 'armed herdsmen'. Over 130 people were killed ...
A church that had disappeared underwater in 1362 has finally been re-discovered. Scientists have been trying to determine the location of Rungholt, a medieval town, for more than a century, after a ...
Christian politicians in the UK are joining calls for the release of a Nigerian man sentenced to hanging for sending a "blasphemous" message. Yahayu Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by hanging in 2...
Once the mass murder of their people began, Safari Jean Bosco and his mother, sister and brothers sought refuge in a Catholic church along with over 2,000 others packed into the building. Some prayed ...
Ukraine's main Orthodox church said on Wednesday it had decided to switch to a calendar in which Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December, a move that distances it from Russia. Ukrainian Ch...
The world must rapidly ditch fossil fuels and end "the senseless war against creation", Pope Francis said this week, in a fresh plea over climate change that called on people to repent for their "ecol...
People in the US are flocking to see the ‘Miracle in Missouri’ after word spread of a recently exhumed remains of a nun which showed little sign of decomposition. Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster found...
