The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by a Catholic hospital in California to avoid a lawsuit over its refusal to let its facilities be used to perform a hysterectomy on a transgende...
Shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court began heard arguments in a major abortion dispute out of Texas, a group of demonstrators who oppose abortion joined together outside the stately white marble neoc...
At least two people have been killed and several worshippers have been abducted after gunmen attacked a church in Kaduna State. It’s been reported bandits entered the church, shooting indiscriminat...
Priests continue to be targeted and killed by Eritrean forces in the ongoing conflict in Tigray, according to a Christian organisation. Release International is warning that hostility towards Christia...
Christians are being encouraged to pray for the family of a US pastor who was murdered on Sunday outside his church. Pastor Joe Moore, 65, was walking towards his car after teaching a Bible study at t...
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it settled civil cases brought by survivors and families of victims of a massacre in 2015, in which nine Black people were killed at a historic South Ca...
Feminist groups in Bolivia demonstrated on Friday against the Catholic church's intervening in an already authorised abortion for an 11-year-old girl, who was a victim of sexual abuse. Screaming "...
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday that Pope Francis told him he was a "good Catholic" who can receive communion, widening a gulf between Francis and conservative U.S. bishops who want to deny it...
The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has urged global leaders attending the UN climate summit in Glasgow, COP26 to "provide effective responses to the present ecological crisis". The Ponti...
A Catholic Bishop has disappeared in China and news reports in Asia suggest he has been kidnapped by the Chinese government and sent on a compulsary vacation. Bishop Shao Zhumin has resisted pressure ...
The number of people requesting an exorcism rose during the pandemic as many people felt the worldwide health crisis meant "Satan or some evil entity has taken over their lives," an Italian priest sai...
Christian charity representatives have campaigned outside the Nigerian High Commission in protest at the frequent disappearance of young people in the West African country. Leah Sharibu, a Christian...
The charity Open Doors says that a Hindu nationalist religious leader called for fellow Hindus to behead Christian converts at a mass rally in India's central Chhattisgarh state. Â Swami Parmatma...
A charity is calling on the Government and the UN to use their diplomatic powers to protect girls from religious minorities being forced to convert to Islam and marry men against their will. Catholi...
A video of a brawl that broke out during a church service in the US state of Washington has gone viral after the congregation tried to remove a maskless man from the altar. In the footage, the pries...
Pope Francis has accepted an invitation to visit Canada, where he faces calls for him to apologise for the Catholic Church's role in former schools for indigenous people where children were subjec...
Christian Aid Ministries, who experienced the loss of 17 people in a kidnap nearly a fortnight ago, have urged people to keep praying for their return. The group was kidnapped when returning from a ...
72 faith institutions, including 37 from the UK, have announced their divestment from fossil fuels. It's the largest-ever joint divestment announcement by religious organisations and involves almo...
Joe Biden will meet Pope Francis in the Vatican on Friday at a time when the USÂ president is under pressure from conservatives in the Church for his position in the dispute over abortion rights. Bide...
Mikhaila Peterson, the daughter of philosopher Jordan Peterson, has spoken publicly about finding faith. Speaking on her podcast, she said she was recently encouraged by a friend to explore God after ...
