One of the world's oldest churches, built on top of a cave in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and festooned with golden icons, attracts thousands of Christian pilgrims every year. But the Chu...
The leader of Lebanon’s biggest church in his Easter message has called for the country’s huge refugee population to be deported from the country. Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai heads th...
Israeli police will curb the number of worshippers in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for safety reasons during Orthodox Easter ceremonies on Saturday, drawing anger from church leaders ...
The Christian Association of Nigeria has received an apology from the manufacturers of Peak Milk, after it used Jesus’ crucifixion as a metaphor to promote its product on Good Friday. The contro...
Scientists have unearthed scripture from the Gospels written more than 1,500 years ago, using UV light. The Syriac text was discovered under three layers of manuscript, after ultraviolet light was app...
A church in the US is mourning the loss of Josh Barrick, one of the five people killed at a mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky on Monday. The 40-year-old was a parishioner at Holy Trinity, where he...
The United Bible Societies (UBS) has announced that a record-breaking number of 57 new translations of the Bible or its parts were completed in 2022. Out of these, 14 were full translations such as th...
One of Italy's most enduring mysteries - the disappearance of a Vatican schoolgirl 40 years ago - entered a new chapter on Tuesday when her brother met with a Vatican investigator whom Pope Franci...
New data has revealed an upward trend in criminal acts towards American churches over the past few years, with attacks surging to new highs in the first quarter of 2023. Family Research Council (FRC),...
More than 800 couples walked down the aisle on Easter Sunday in one of the biggest mass wedding ceremonies in South Africa since the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Pentecost Holiness Church bles...
A Harvard art historian has uncovered a 19th century stained glass window depicting who is believed to be Jesus as a person of colour. Located at a church in Rhode Island, USA, the picture had previou...
Nicky Gumbel has preached a sermon from the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem to mark Easter Sunday. He appeared in the Holy Land despite clashes in recent days, as Easter, Passover, and Ramadan fall at the sa...
Pope Francis led the world's Roman Catholics into Easter at a Saturday night vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, decrying the "icy winds of war" and other injustices. The 86-year-old...
Pope Francis has appeared in a new Disney documentary, answering questions by young people. The conversations, which were recorded in late 2022, see at least ten people in their early twenties put the...
Reverend Dr Hkalam Samson, former President of the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC), has been sentenced to six years in prison by a court in Myanmar on charges of unlawful association, defaming the sta...
An Italian tourist was killed and five people were wounded, including British passport holders, in a car ramming in Tel Aviv on Friday that came hours after two British-Israeli sisters were killed in ...
A group of Chinese Christians who had been detained by Thai authorities and who were fearing deportation back to China are on their way to Texas, USA. Pastor Bob Fu, lawyer and Texas-based human right...
Pope Francis, appearing fully recovered from a bout of bronchitis, on Thursday began an intense four days leading to Easter urging priests to avoid fomenting division in the Church and washing the fee...
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown's office on Wednesday released a redacted version of an investigative report that detailed sexual abuse accusations against clergy within the Archdiocese of...
A pastor and author who compared salvation and the Church to sexual intimacy has apologised for his "unwise" choice to include that specific excerpt in the article published in The Gospel Co...
