A wave of anti-government protests that began in April in Nicaragua has escalated leading to bishops and clergy being attacked by armed groups aligned with the The violence towards the Catholic Chur...
Nicaragua's president has said he will not bring forward elections, despite street protests that have seen more than 300 deaths in the past three months. Daniel Ortega, who said he is open to continu...
More than 200 Nicaraguan university students have been reunited with their parents after a tense night of armed attacks that left two people dead and dozens inj The students had sought refuge in a lo...
American footballer star Nick Foles has said he wouldn't have even been on the pitch for last night's Super Bowl if it wasn't for his Christian faith. The quarterback led the Philadelphia Eagles to v...
Nicole Kidman prays for her adopted children, who are now living with her ex-husband Tom Cruise, according to her priest. Her children Isabella, 23, and Connor, 21, were adopted when Kidman was marri...
Oscar winner Nicole Kidman has spoken about her belief in God. "A lot of my friends tease me." she told the May issue of Vanity Fair, in which she features on the cover.The Moulin Rouge actor is marr...
American singer and actress Nicole Scherzinger has revealed the moral conflict she had in playing a TV character who has an abortion. Nicole Scherzinger plays Penny Johnson in the ABC TV remake of th...
More than 70 churches remain abandoned and unused in Niger following attacks. The Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs has reported that the attacks took place at the beginning of 2015 foll...
At least six churches have been set alight or looted in Niger in a second day of violent protests at the publication of a cartoon showing the Prophet Mohammad. Demonstrators clashed with police in th...
A key figure thought to be involved in the abduction of over 200 school girls in Nigeria has been arrested, according to the country's military. With more here's Premier's Tulika Pandey. (funct...
The United Nations is being asked to help negotiate the release of the kidnapped Christian schoolgirls from Chibok. Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari has invited the UN to lead talks with Boko Har...
Five people have been killed after a bomb exploded at a Catholic Church in Nigeria. The attack in the city of Kano also injured eight people.It's reported a bomb was thrown at Christians as they left...
The Nigerian government is negotiating with the Islamic terrorists who captured more than 200 Christian schools girls in Chibok. Attempts to secure the release of the girls are "still on", the countr...
The World Bishops' Council (WBC) has urged Nigerian politicians to accept the results of Saturday's elections. The country's electoral commission cancelled them last week, just as the polls were abou...
News is just emerging of two state-approved church demolitions in Nigeria. According to Christian news agency World Watch Monitor they happened in Dutse, the capital of the northern state of Jigawa, ...
Seventy-five people died in a recent spate of violence gripping Christian communities in central Nigeria, Premier has been told. According to World Watch Monitor (WWM), herdsmen from a Muslim-majorit...
A Nigerian city with a considerable Christian population has been hit by a 10 year old suicide bomber in an attack that's left at least 20 people dead. Police say a further 18 were injured in the exp...
Violence between Christian and Muslim youths in northern Nigeria has left 55 people dead and drawn condemnation from the country's president. Clashes in Kaduna State on Saturday reportedly erupted fo...
As many as 737,000 Nigerians were forced to flee their homes because of Boko Haram in 2015 alone, an international report has found. The report released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre...
The head of the Nigerian Catholic Bishops' Conference has called for an end to savagery against Christians, which he said was "unparalleled in the country's his Archbisop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos made...
