An US man who made more than 27,000 crosses to commemorate victims of mass shootings across the country is retiring. After 23 years, Greg Zanis came to realise that his Crosses for Losses ministry was...
Worshippers attending church on Christmas Day in northern France were taken to hospital with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. People attending Christmas mass in Oise were taken in ambulances from ...
Christian Aid has drawn attention to the extreme economic damage caused by extreme weather in 2019. In its new report, Counting the Cost 2019: a year of climate breakdown, the charity highlights 15 of...
Police in Brazil are investigating a video on social media showing a petrol bomb attack on a production company behind a Christmas programme on Netflix that some critics have described as blasphemous....
After Christianity Today's editorial that said Trump should be removed from office, many preachers said they disagree. Mark Galli's editorial started: "It’s time to say what we said 20 years a...
The choristers at Notre Dame Cathedral are threatening continued strike action, meaning no midnight mass for the first time since 1803. The singers are protesting against the removal of five singing ...
Israel has announced that it will allow Christians in the Gaza Strip to travel to Jerusalem and the West Bank for Christmas. Until its notice just two days before the holiday, it was unclear whether I...
An elderly man in hospice care was granted his final request of being baptised before he died. Jenis James Grindstaff was immersed in water at Spartanburg Regional hospice home, in South Carolina. Due...
A government secretary in the state of Hidalgo has publicly declared there are no cases of religious intolerance in the Huasteca region, despite evidence Christians there were forced to flee their hom...
A prayer campaign launched by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has been extended as severe dry weather continues to effect eastern regions. The appeal to pray for "the gift of rain" was init...
Pope Francis has warned that "rigidity" in observing the Christian faith is creating a "minefield" of hatred and misunderstanding in a world where Christianity is increasing irrelevant. Francis called...
Notre Dame Cathedral will be closed over the Christmas period for the first time since the French Revolution, to undergo repairs. The iconic Cathedral which remained open during the First and Second W...
Bethel Church has announced its decision to stop praying for the resurrection of a toddler who died and move forward with funeral plans. On Monday, Bethel worship leader Kalley Heiligenthal asked "the...
Donald Trump has hit back at a prominent Christian magazine that published an editorial arguing that he should be removed from office. The president tweeted that Christianity Today, an evangelical mag...
Actor Jamie Foxx has opened up about his Christian faith ahead of his new film release. Just Mercy, set to be released in January tells the true story of civil rights defence attorney Bryan Stevenson ...
A group of Christians have been assaulted in India as they gathered to celebrate advent on Tuesday. The service which was taking place in a home church in Tamil Nadu was disrupted when five men violen...
A man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for burning an LGBTQ flag that was flying at a church in the US. Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, Iowa, was sentenced to 15 years for the hate cri...
An emergency relief expert in the Middle East has warned of a second genocide of Christians in the region. Fr Andrzej Halemba, head of Middle East projects at Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), said th...
A new report has highlighted the atrocities against Christians in Nigeria over the past 12 months. The report by The Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) found that 1,000 Christians have been killed s...
Christians have been encouraged to remember persecuted believers who've fled their homes in the past 12 months. Wednesday marked International Migrant Day, which was established in 1997 to raise a...
