At least eleven former or serving bishops in the Catholic Church in France will potentially face either prosecution or church disciplinary action after being accused of sexual violence. The form...
For the first time in centuries, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine will allow worshippers to celebrate Christmas on 25th December, as marked by the Gregorian calendar. The East and the West have fo...
New research has claimed that most Americans don't think moral standards come mainly from the Bible. A study by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University surveyed 2,275 US...
The head of Cyprus's dominant Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, died on Monday, his doctors said. He was 81. A forceful character who faced down pro-Russian elements in one of the ...
Pope Francis said on Sunday European Union member states should share responsibility for taking in migrants and not just leave it to the countries where people arrive. He spoke as migration trigg...
Pope Francis wound up his trip to Bahrain on Sunday by visiting the oldest Catholic church in the Gulf, telling bishops, priests and nuns to remain united as they ministered to the faithful in the maj...
Relatives of death row and life inmates in Bahrain held a small protest along Pope Francis' motorcade route on Saturday calling for freedom of political prisoners in the Gulf Arab state. It was no...
Pope Francis said Mass for thousands of Catholics in Bahrain on Saturday, thrilling members of the small foreign Catholic community from around the Gulf and urging them to show kindness to their hosts...
A Christian monastery that is believed to pre-date Islam has been found in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It's the second such monastery found in the area - the first was discovered in the early ...
Pope Francis on Friday appealed to religious leaders to help bring the world back from "the brink of a delicate precipice" and oppose a new race to rearm that he said was redesigning Cold Wa...
Pope Francis spoke against the death penalty on Thursday at the start of a trip to Bahrain where the Shi'ite Muslim opposition accuse the Sunni monarchy of overseeing human rights abuses and famil...
An Bahraini prisoner who is currently on death row is pleading with Pope Francis to help free him. Mohammed Ramadhan, a former airport security guard, alleges that he was accused of a bombing an...
The founding pastor of Hillsong Church, Brian Houston, has publicly addressed some of the accusations made against him in the last few months. It’s the first time he’s opened up about the ...
When Pope Francis visits Bahrain this week, it will be a dream come true for many Christians in the Gulf Arab country, but especially for Najla Uchi, whose father helped build the first Roman Catholic...
After a festival in Texas saw Satanists and athiests mocking Christianity and performing "unbaptisms", congregants from the local church gathered in prayer. They were met with taunting and j...
An Irish bishop has apologised after a sermon labelling gay and transgender people as "sinful" went viral on social media. Bishop of Kerry, Fr Ray Browne, apologised to "all who w...
A Canadian pastor has been acquitted of violating Covid-19 lockdown rules. Pastor Tim Stephens, from Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary, became the third pastor to be arrested in 2021 for contin...
Roughly 15 Christians have been attacked by right-wing Hindu fundamentalists in Sukma District in Chhattisgarh. On the 21st October, there was a report by local sources that a mob group broke into a p...
A pastor from Chicago has camped out on a makeshift rooftop for 365 days and raised over £16m the total of $20m for a new community centre. Corey Brooks, founder and senior pastor of New B...
The Princess Royal has been welcomed aboard a plane belonging to the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) - the world's largest humanitarian airline, made up of Christians delivering help to those in...
