A second Coptic Christian has been murdered in the Sinai region of Egypt in a week. According to AP, Gamal Tawfiq, 50 and a Christian schoolteacher, was shot by two gunmen on a motorbike as he was wa...
A missionary has been shot dead in Cameroon during the second killing of its kind in less than one month. Fr Cosmas Omboto Ondari was standing outside his church in the South West region on Wednesday...
The second man who murdered a priest at a church in Normandy on Tuesday has been named as a French teenager. Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean was identified by DNA tests as the other individual responsibl...
Urgent prayer is being requested as the second church this month is demolished in Sudan. Christians in Sudan have asked for prayer as the authorities' continue to demolish in Khartoum. On May 17th, t...
Secret Christians in Muslim countries are struggling to keep their faith hidden in Saudi Arabia during Ramadan. Christian charity Open Doors have found that the secretive believers - who face punishm...
Letters between Pope John Paul II and a married woman have been uncovered. The documents appear to show a 30-year long loving relationship between the now saint and Polish-born American philosopher A...
A religious anti-persecution charity has accused the Pakistani government of covering up a sectarian attack on a Christian boy, which has reportedly left the te According to CLAAS-UK, 14-year-old Nau...
Police in France are increasing security at churches amid fears of an Islamist attack on the Feast of the Assumption. Security had already been stepped up at France's 45,000 Catholic churches followi...
Extra police officers have been assigned to St Peter's Square as the Vatican steps up measures to protect the Pope. Security procedures have been increased around the Holy See, but the pontiff will n...
Hundreds of extra police are being drafted into Krakow as thousands of young people gather ahead of the arrival of Pope Francis for World Youth Day. Security is being stepped up in the wake of the Fr...
With pilgrims around the world descending on Lourdes, security has been tightened following extremist attacks in France. Armed soldiers and police are on patrol in the village where thousands will ga...
Hundreds of extra police officers are being deployed in the Sri Lankan capital as the country prepares to welcome Pope Francis. The pontiff will leave for his second trip to Asia in just six months t...
Security has been tightened in Cairo ahead of a two-day visit by the Pope to the Egyptian capital which begins on Friday. Businesses have closed and streets have been shut around the Vatican residenc...
Two US senators have met with Turkey's leader and urged him to help secure the release of an American pastor held in the country for more than 18 months. Lindsey Graham and Jeanna Shaheen said Recep ...
A bishop, whose diocese in north-east Nigeria has suffered at the hands of Boko Haram, is calling on the West to send in military forces to defeat the militants Bishop Oliver Dashe Dome of Maiduguri ...
Archbishop Kattey who is head of the Anglican Church in Niger Delta was taken with his wife from their home by armed men on Friday. Police in Nigeria are looking for the armed men who kidnapped the c...
A representative of Pope Francis and the leader of Catholics in Lebanon have visited displaced Iraqi Christians in Kurdistan. Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan and Cardinal Bechara Rai, the patriarch of...
Half a million Catholics from around the world are calling on the Pope to clarify what the Church's stance is on a number of topical issues. In an open letter, which has been signed by a number of bi...
The Catholic Archbishop of Yangon in south east Myanmar is warning that the countries new laws on religion and race will persecute religious minorities. The new laws that were signed in over the past...
The General Secretary of the World Hindu Council has said it is part of Christian culture to "exploit nuns", after a nun was gang-raped at her convent and left Surendra Jain, the General Secretary, ...
