The BBC has spoken for the first time about filming its popular Songs of Praise programme in a make-shift migrant church in Calais. Aaqil Ahmed, Head of Religion and Ethics at the BBC said that "the ...
Doctors treating the former South African President say that his condition is steadily improving. Nelson Mandela is celebrating his 95th birthday in hospital. South Africans are being urged to mark t...
The head of the Anglican Church in South Africa has said he is praying for justice, healing and forgiveness after Oscar Pistorius' conviction of murder. In an exclusive interview with Premier, His Gr...
A South African bishop has said the amount of corruption in the country amounts to a national emergency. Bishop Abel Gabuza of Kimberley was speaking as thousands of protestors demonstrated in Pretor...
Bishops in South Africa have welcomed the peaceful elections that have taken place across the country. The group said that the people of South Africa have shown they are "tired of corruption, malad...
A South African church is to begin evicting over five hundred refugees who currently take refuge in the building. Over the past 15 years, Central Methodist in Johannesburg has housed the homeless who...
A South African police officer is recovering in hospital after being attacked by members of a church. Trouble began on Sunday when traffic officers attempted to tow away a car belonging to a member o...
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius' release from prison has been criticised by a pastor in the country who's told Premier it sends out the wrong message cons Pistorius is now under house arrest fo...
Judge upholds athlete's appeal against some of his bail restrictions, meaning he can leave South Africa if he gives notice. Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has had some of his bail conditions lifted - cl...
South Africa's ruling party suffered its worst election setback since taking power at the end of apartheid, just days after its leader said it would be in gover The African National Congress (ANC) lo...
Desmond Tutu has reportedly accused South Africa's President of spending unjustified sums of public money on a private estate and betraying those who struggled The Archbishop Emeritus, who led the t...
The Pope's midnight mass on Christmas Eve has been dropped by the state broadcaster in South Africa in a decision described as "disrespectful treatment" of the The South African Broadcasting Corpora...
Football in South America is asking the Vatican for help after it signed an agreement with the Holy See. The governing body of South American football, CONMEBOL, has had its last three presidents arr...
A church in South Carolina has had its 125-year-old windows broken as well as a pro- Islam message spray-painted to it, just hours after celebrating Palm Sunday The words "Submit to God thru Islam" a...
A church in the US will ordain transgender ministers. The First Baptist Church of Greenville, in South Carolina, has decided it will allow LGBT and transgender ministers to be ordained, after six mon...
A South Carolina church has sheltered hundreds of young children after a shooting at their primary school. Pupils at Townville Elementary School were evacuated after a teenager opened fire, wounding ...
A Christian group in South Korea has cancelled plans to put a new Christmas-tree-shaped tower with a cross near the border with North Korea, over concerns it co North and South Korea are technically ...
A South Korean missionary's been stabbed to death in America, at a homeless shelter where he worked as a cook. Chung Hwan Park had been working at Anna Mountain Prayer Church Retreat Center in Urbana...
South Korean priests have publicly celebrated Mass in the world's so-called most dangerous country to be a Christian - North Korea. The delegation of 12 priests from the Catholic Priest's Association...
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...
