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A South Sudanese bishop has accused the country's army of committing mass rape and torture amid a civil war. According to Fides Rt Rev Paul Yugusuk, of the Anglican Diocese of Lomega, says he's met s...

Bishops in South Sudan are appealing for the international community to provide "immediate and unconditional concrete intervention" after the country entered a In a pastoral letter from South Sudan ...

Catholic aid charity CAFOD has expressed deep concern at the escalation in violence in South Sudan, as the conflict entered its fifth year on Friday. What started as a power struggle between the Sout...

An international Christian charity is reporting that the crisis in South Sudan is getting worse and will potentially affect millions of people.  Aid to the Church in Need and its Catholic partner in...

As the world's newest country reaches its sixth anniversary on Sunday, Church leaders in South Sudan and in neighbouring Kenya and Uganda have called for prayer A movement of over 3,000 churches will...

null War and a collapsing economy has left around 100,000 people facing starvation and a further one million people on the brink of severe food deprivation.Pope Francis has called for a day of prayer...

A priest in South Sudan has fed 4,000 in a year as the country's refugee crisis intensified. Fr David Tulimelli is hosting thousands of people at the Don Bosco compound amid warnings that over 4 mill...

A Christian activist and peacebuilder from South Sudan met with MPs and ambassadors on Wednesday to call for the international community to continue to support Following the creation of South Sudan ...

The prosecution in the trial of two South Sudanese pastors closed on Friday following the presentation of the final witness in a Sudanese court.   The court heard from an officer of the National Int...

Two South Sudanese pastors have been transferred to a high security prison in Sudan accused of five serious charges, two of which hold the death penalty or life Revd Yat Michael and Revd Peter Reith,...

Two pastors from South Sudan who were facing the death penalty, but were released by a court in Khartoum on Wednesday have been prevented from leaving majority Revd Yat Michael and Revd Peter Reith ...

Southern Baptists have formally condemned the US political movement known as the "alt-right", in a national meeting which was thrown into turmoil after leaders The denomination's annual convention i...

International Space Station Commander Randy Bresnik has told Pope Francis his greatest joy working on the orbiting lab is being able to "see God's creation mayb They spoke during a phone call between...

A train which hurtled off the rails in north-western Spain, killing 80 people was going at around twice the speed limit. A Spanish official says a train crash in the north-west of the country - which...

EU proposals to give Spain a veto over decisions concerning the future of Gibraltar are "very scary", the Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe has told Premier. Gibraltar's government has accused its closes...

A church in Spain is facing a £14,000 fine because its bells are "too noisy". Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Mostoles, south-west of Madrid, faces the fine after complaints from residents.The ...

Churches in Spain are being met with criticism for holding special Masses in homage to the military dictator Franciso Franco.  He died forty years ago and it is thought that hundreds of thousands of...

Convents across Spain have resorted to the internet to recruit new members, in the hope of stemming a collapse in the number of women signing up to become nuns The religious orders have been lured t...

A pair of nuns in Spain are under investigation over allegations of stealing 13 babies whose mothers gave them up for adoption. Sister Carmen Longatela Latas, 82, and Sister Carmen Vazquez Lamela, 88...

A convent of Spanish nuns have been fined for having a priceless church organ repaired without the state's permission. The sisters of Santa Ines in Seville, southern Spain, accepted the offer from a ...