A Nigerian church has collapsed while worshippers were inside on Sunday. It's not clear how many casualties there are at St Paul Catholic Church in the Southern Delta state.Sources in the community t...
A Nigerian mega church has given the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), N10 million (£21,122) to support victims of conflicts in Africa Daystar Christian Centre in Lagos gave the m...
A suicide bomber's blown himself up at the gates of a Nigerian church. The Nigerian Red Cross said the man attempted to access ECWA church in Gombe on a motorbike but was restrained.He then set off t...
A Nigerian priest tells Premier about the attack on a church in his diocese which killed 19 people. On Monday morning in a village called Mbalom in Nigeria, a gun attack on St Ignatius church kille...
A Christian charity has warned that the Nigerian government has made "no major attempts" to prevent Fulani militia herdsmen from killing Christians. International Christian Concern (ICC) reported a s...
A missionary Nigerian priest has been killed according to reports coming from the country. Fr Dennis Osuagwu, also a Catholic priest was killed in a road ambush in Nekede, southern Nigeria, according...
Kenyan police have arrested five people in connection with the massacre of 148 people at the country's Garissa University. Gunmen from Somalia's al Shabaab terrorist group stormed the building on Thu...
A top Brazilian football team has asked God to accompany its athletes and other staff after the plane they were on crashed in Colombia. Chapocoense footballers were travelling from Bolivia to Colombi...
A Christian charity supporting the persecuted church has said it was a miracle that no one was hurt when Aleppo's Jesuit monastery was struck by a bomb. A church worker who works at the monastery tol...
An American pastor has described a steeple being ripped from his South Carolina church in a storm and landing between two church buildings as a miracle. Strong winds removed the large metal spire bef...
It's now thought more than 70 churches have been destroyed by violent protests in Niger following the publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Following two days of riots across the country ...
Author and preacher Anne Graham Lotz has thanked supporters for their prayers as she delivered an update on her health. The daughter of legendary evangelist Billy Graham has been battling cancer over...
Nigeria's engineering regulatory body has said the church that collapsed on Sunday had many structural faults. Kashim Ali, the president of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, a...
The Catholic Church shall "never again" cover up sexual abuse perpetrated by its clergy, Pope Francis promised during a Christmas address to Vatican officials o The pope used his annual speech to urg...
A 72-year-old man has been charged after a priest was stabbed in the neck in front of 100 parishoners at a church in Melbourne. Rev Tommy Kalathoor Matther, 48, needed urgent first aid from parishion...
A man's been charged with two counts of arson after seven American churches were torched in one month. David Lopez Jackson has been charged over the fires at Ebenezer Lutheran Church and New Life Mis...
A man charged with killing two nuns will plead guilty as part of an agreement removing the possibility of the death penalty, a Mississippi prosecutor has said. District Attorney Akillie Malone-Oliver...
A man has shot a woman, a new-born baby and a pastor inside a church in Alabama, United States. Police in the area have charged a man with attempted murder after the incident on Sunday morning at Oas...
A 46-year-old man has been arrested and charged in Mississippi, accused of killing two nuns. Rodney Sanders has been charged with two counts of murder.His arrest came after the bodies of Sister Marga...
A former Salvadoran colonel has been extradited to Spain to face charges that he helped plot the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and two others in El Salvad The National Court in Madrid said Inoc...
