A church in Texas has sparked a backlash on social media for holding an extravagant Christmas service, which featured nearly 1,000 performers, including flying angels and real sheep and camels. A...
A new Bishop of Carlisle won’t be appointed before 2025 after the Crown Nominations Commission failed to decide on a suitable candidate. In a statement, the Archbishop of York Most Rev Stephen C...
The Prime Minister has thanked Christians and churches for a campaign bringing hope to communities across the country. Hundreds of Shine Your Light events are being held across the UK and Ireland and ...
The Salvation Army has officially opened its new UK and Ireland Territory headquarters in south London, having sold its previous base in Elephant and Castle, in central London, in 2020. A plaque ...
The Virginia Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit accusing the West Point School Board of violating the rights of a high school teacher, Peter Vlaming, by firing him for refusing to use personal pro...
The Church of Scotland is appealing to the Home Office to allow a refugee from Sudan to bring her family to the UK. The Church says Kaltouma Haroun Ibrahim is a valued member of the community at Gorba...
Charismatic minister and founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC), Mike Bickle, has admitted to “inappropriate behaviour” and “moral failures” more tha...
An English Heritage historian is challenging what we think we know about Christmas carols. Dr Michael Carter says many carols actually started out with very different tunes or no tune at all. Reveller...
The Christian charity Tearfund is urging Christians in the UK to be inspired into action after the COP summit in Dubai, where for the first time ever, language about reducing fossil fuels has been inc...
Anglicans with traditional views on marriage say they are saddened by the Church of England’s decision to offer blessings for same sex couples in church from this Sunday. It follows a vote yeste...
Pope Francis, who has shunned much of the Vatican's pomp and privilege, has decided to vastly simplify the elaborate funeral rites for a pontiff and be the first one to be buried outside the Vatic...
A small part of a dead person's cremated ashes may be stored in a place that was dear to them rather than in a church or cemetery, the Vatican said on Tuesday, softening its previous stance on the...
The Church of England has announced that blessings for same-sex couples can take place within existing church services from this Sunday, 17 December. Yesterday afternoon the House of Bishops vote...
Five years after a government crackdown in China saw over 100 members of the Early Rain Church arrested in Sichuan Province, authorities have prevented leaders and members from taking part in an onlin...
A teacher has been found dead at a church in London where his pupils had performed their nativity just hours earlier. The man's body was discovered at St Matthew's church in Bayswate...
The only Catholic church in Gaza has been damaged in an attack. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has confirmed to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that shrapnel from Israe...
Bethlehem is normally at its busiest at Christmas but this year war has scared away tourists and pilgrims from the Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, leaving hotels, restaurants and s...
Reports from India say 42 Christians were arrested and interrogated by police at the end of November in the country's most populated state. Anti-conversion laws in the state of Uttar Pradesh have ...
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York say they 'deeply regret' flaws in the design and governance of the Church of England’s Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB). The body was disbanded...
American pastor, author and broadcaster Dr Tony Evans has married his fiancée, three months after announcing their engagement. Dr Evans, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, in Dallas, ...
