Two nuns have reportedly been rescued after they were stuck in an Italian lift without food or water for three days. The unnamed sisters, a 69-year-old from New Zealand and a 58-year-old from Ireland...
Two nuns in Spain have undergone virginity tests in an attempt to defend the leader of their order from allegations of sexual abuse. Feliciano Miguel Rosendo da Silva, 57, was arrested in March...
A group of US nuns is taking time out from prayers to create what's being described as 'heavenly' cheesecakes. The sisters from New Skeete monastery in New York state are selling the desserts for $40...
A Bishop in Bangladesh is condemning an attack on nuns in the country. It's reported Sisters from the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions were violently assaulted by a gang of up to 60 armed men...
A Spanish nurse who helped treat a priest who died from Ebola has contracted the illness. The unnamed female worker is the first person to catch the disease outside of Africa.She was involved in the ...
A Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola while she cared for a priest with the virus has recovered. Teresa Romero, 44, had been treating Fr Manuel Garcia Viejo, who became ill while working as a missiona...
Security is "absolutely massive" in America ahead of this month's visit from Pope Francis, a Catholic commentator has told Premier. Austen Ivereigh, from Catholic Voices, the Church's mouthpiece in t...
The US President will speak in Selma, Alabama, later to mark the 50th anniversary of the marches that took place to protest against the lack of voting rights. The anniversary comes with America digest...
A former adviser to the US President has said he effectively told Barack Obama not to support gay marriage in 2008, despite the future president being in favour In a new book, "Believer: My Forty...
The United States President has been speaking of how he intends to "degrade and ultimately destroy" an extremist group in Iraq which is persecuting tens of thou Islamic State (I.S.) militant...
US President Barak Obama is being urged to raise the issue of religious freedom as he prepares to attend the G20 meeting of global leaders in China. The rights of religious groups, particularly ...
The US President has sung Amazing Grace to mourners at the memorial service of Revd Clementa Pinckney, the pastor who was killed in the Charleston massacre. Barack Obama delivered a eulogy for his fri...
United States President Barack Obama will tonight attend the funeral of a pastor who was one of nine people shot dead at a black majority church. The president and his wife, First Lady Michelle, will ...
President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy at the funeral of a pastor killed during a mass shooting at a church in America. Revd Clementa Pinckney was one of nine people shot dead at the black Ema...
An advocacy charity's calling on world leaders including Barack Obama to speak out against Christian persecution in Laos during a summit there. Speaking as the US President joins the Association o...
Barack Obama is being urged to intervene in the case of a Cuban church leader reportedly threatened with arrest after his church was forcibly demolished. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), which pr...
A Christian anti-persecution charity has told Premier that President Obama's visit to Vietnam has raised more awareness about the treatment of Christians there. Tania Corbett from Open Doors has s...
Authorities in north-west Pakistan have made a U-turn on their decision to shut down house churches for "security reasons". According to Christian charity Barnabus Fund, local officials in Abbottabad...
Journalists at the scene of a church in southern Nigeria which collapsed killing 160 people say people were trying to stop them documenting the incident. Reporters at the Reigners Bible Church in Uyo...
A week after gospel singer Edwin Hawkins died, his most famous song, 'Oh Happy Day', increased sales by 999-per-cent. Edwin Hawkins died on Monday 15th January from pancreatic cancer at the age of 74...
