Hundreds of people have attended a prayer service for the nine people shot dead at a black church in the US city of Charleston. People of all walks of life gathered at Morris Brown AME Church to reme...
There have been prayers and singing at a vigil held in memory of a man shot dead by police in the US state of Louisiana on Tuesday. Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot during a scuffle ...
Prayers will be said during a vigil at the Zimbabwean embassy in London later as protests against the regime of Robert Mugabe increase. The event in the capital will mark the end of a 110km march fro...
It's been three years since an American Iranian pastor was jailed for 'undermining national security' in Iran. Saeed Abedini is serving an eight year prison term for helping to Christians set up home...
There's growing concern for a Christian Pakistani man on death row, accused of insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Sawan Masih was accused of committing blasphemy by his Muslim friend in 2013 - a cri...
Prayers will be said at Sunday church services across Denmark later, a day after a lone terrorist killed two people. Police in Copenhagen believe they have shot dead the man responsible for two shoot...
A memorial service is being held in Amsterdam later for the 196 Dutch citizens who were killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 came down over Ukraine. Religious leaders will join the country's roy...
Churches and Christian charities are praying and sending help to Texas as the fiercest cyclone to hit the US in more than a decade has slammed into the sta The National Hurricane Centre said the eye...
Tributes are being paid to the broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan who has died aged 77. Sir Terry had a career on television and radio spanning 50 years, including presenting Wake up to Wogan on BBC Radio...
Hundreds of people have joined in prayer as the Christmas lights in Bethlehem were switched on. Tourists and locals gathered in Manger Square to ask God to bring peace to the region.It's after this s...
A prayer service is to be held in Kuala Lumpur as 20 Malaysian victims of last month's plane crash arrive home. They were flown in on a specially chartered plane over night as national flags were low...
The Indonesian president has offered prayers for the families of the 162 people who have died after a plane crashed into the Java Sea. Air Asia says it's now focusing on a recovery operation after wr...
Government officials in Poland are joining prayers and wreath laying ceremonies in remembrance of late president Lech Kaczynski and the 95 other people who died A special day of ceremonies is being h...
The family members of many of the Christian passengers on AirAsia Flight 8501 have attended Sunday services to pray for the return of their loved ones. Most of the people lost after the aircraft cras...
Churches in Ukraine have come together for a National Day of Prayer in the war-torn country. A civil war in the east of the country has been raging since 2014, and thousands of people have been kil...
Christians are being urged to pray for Burundi amidst on-going fighting and confusion over who's actually in charge of the country. Rival groups of soldiers are engaged in conflict with reports of an...
The head of a Christian charity in Colombia has said he's praying for peace as the public heads to the polls to vote for the country's new president on Sunday. The election is the first since the his...
The death of one of the defining leaders of the 20th century, Fidel Castro, could pave the way for a Cuba more open to religious freedom, according to a Christi Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) ...
A Christian charity's urging us to pray for six British seafarers being held in India, who have been told they will not be returning home as they expected. The Indian Supreme Court has told the men t...
Canada's Prime Minister has said his thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by yesterday's terrorist attack. Stephen Harper was speaking after a soldier was shot dead at the National War Mem...
