Mourners are gathering on Friday to pay their respects to a 37-year-old black man who was shot dead by two white police officers in Louisiana. Alton Sterling was shot and killed outside a convenien...
A Syrian Church of England priest has accused the British government of having "blood on its hands", because it refuses to talk to the Syrian president to solve Revd Nadim Nassar, who also directs th...
The Christian anti-persecution charity Open Doors released its 2018 World Watch List on Wednesday. Revised yearly, the list ranks the 50 countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution b...
Foreign leaders showered US President Donald Trump and his family with more than 140,000 dollars (£106,000) worth of gifts during their first year in the White Chinese President Xi Jinping gave Mr Tr...
A prominent church leader arrested in China this week penned a striking letter several weeks ago, predicting his detention and asserting his willingness to die Pastor Wang Yi wrote in September that...
Visits by clergy and peers to Syria - including a meeting with President Bashar al-Assad - frustrated the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), newly-release The papers reveal government departmental ...
A British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Tehran for more than three years, has been transferred to a psychiatric unit. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe asked to move for health reasons - but her family have ra...
Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren has been discharged from hospital after undergoing emergency surgery for an intestinal condition on Thursday. News of the best-selling author came to light after ...
American preacher Rick Warren has written to his congregation to say he is recovering after surgery Saddleback Church in California is a megachurch, with Rick Warren being the senior pastor, having f...
The Saddleback Church's decision to host Rwandan President Paul Kagame at its Sunday service has upset activists. Rick Warren invited Kagame – who has ruled Rwanda since 2000 to speak "as we join o...
Rick Warren's Saddleback Church has marked the 50,000th person to be baptised in the Californian church since it was established 38 year ago. In an email sent to members, the pastor said: "Imagine al...
An American university lecturer has labelled fundamental Christianity "more dangerous" to America than Islamic extremism. In a recent Ted Talk, Dr Catherine Wallace from Northwestern University conde...
Prosecutors kept fighting the case but have now exhausted their appeal options. The case of a young Christian girl facing blasphemy charges in Pakistan has been thrown out by the Supreme Court for th...
Thousands of riot police have been deployed across Islamabad amid fears of violence after a Pakistani court postponed the appeal of a Asia Bibi, a Christian wom Justice Iqbal Hameed ur Rehman, one of...
Health campaigners have warned that high rates of teen pregnancy in Guatemala are a result of ignorance about reproduction from girls that are taught traditiona Guatemala has one of the highest rates...
Internationally-renowned actor Robert De Niro is set to play a pope in an upcoming film. The Taxi Driver, Godfather and Meet the Fockers star is rumoured to play Pope Pius IX, a 19th century leader...
Pastor Robert Jeffress has criticised Christians who do not support the US President. The head of megachurch First Baptist Dallas, Jeffress, who is also a member of Donald Trump's evangelical advi...
Following the death of Robert Mugabe, Bishop Dr Joe Aldred says the Western world has placed too much focus on the negatives of the Zimbabwean leader rather tha The former leader of Zimbabwe, who had...
A new Robot Priest has been unveiled at a small church in Germany. BlessU-2 is being used in an evangelical church in Wittenberug, Germany and has been made to mark the 500th Anniversary of the ref...
The Filipino president-elect has broken the law after 'joking' about a raped and murdered Christian missionary. The Philippine Commission on Human Rights said the country's president-elect violated...