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Pope Francis is making his first visit to Mongolia, thirty years after the collapse of a totalitarian regime which tried to eradicate Christianity. Even today, under  two per cent of the country&...

Pope Francis heads to Mongolia on Thursday, a predominantly Buddhist country with just 1,450 Catholics, which the Vatican hopes can act as a facilitator to improve difficult relations with China. The ...

A TikTok star with more than 1 million followers is trying to find new ways of bringing the gospel to life for young people, by translating scripture into “Gen Z terminology”. The short vi...

Christians in Nigeria are celebrating the release of a priest and seminarian following their kidnapping.  Father Paul Sanogo and Brother Melchior Mahinini, of the Missionaries of Africa (also kno...

A Christian persecution charity has warned of a worsening situation for Christians in China ahead of a planned crackdown on churches. Christians in China are already facing increasing regulations foll...

A member of the Archbishops' Council has heavily criticised a survey by the Times newspaper into Church of England clergy attitudes.  It claimed that less than half of clergy believ...

The Vatican has responded to fallout from the Pope’s recent comments about “mother Russia” which have been condemned as praise towards the country’s imperialist past. In a prep...

Christian human rights experts have raised concerns over Foreign Secretary James Cleverly’s visit to China, over atrocities committed against civilians, particularly people of faith. Christians ...

Pope Francis, announcing that he will issue a new document on the protection of nature, said on Wednesday he was doing so because a "terrible world war" against the environment was taking pl...

One of the most wide-ranging surveys of Anglican clergy in more than a decade has found three quarters don't believe Britain can still be considered a Christian country.   The Times poll...

At least 14 people were killed in the eastern Congolese province of Ituri on Sunday, after militia attacked worshippers praying in a church, a local official and a civil society leader said on Monday....

Angeles Bejar, the mother of suspended Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales, has expressed to a Spanish TV channel that she's prepared to "die for justice." Her son is currently under sc...

A Nigerian court has granted protection to an 18-year-old Christian whose life was threatened by family members after she converted from Islam to Christianity. Mary Olowe, not her real name, filed for...

Pope Francis came under criticism on Monday for telling Russian youths to remember that they are the heirs of past tsars such as Peter the Great, who President Vladimir Putin has held up as an example...

Four decades after departing due to anti-Catholic hostility, the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate have returned to Mozambique, embraced by a heartfelt reception in Dómuè, Tete Diocese. ...

At least seven people were killed in Haiti on Saturday, local rights group CARDH said, after a gang that controls a northern suburb of the capital Port-au-Prince opened fire with machine guns on a pro...

Mongolia's Catholics - all 1,450 of them - could be squeezed standing into St. Peter's Basilica dozens of times over and their number is smaller than the congregation of a small parish in some...

Pope Francis has prayed for the victims of the Greece wildfires that have destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of land in the northeast alone, with a government spokesman saying Greece was &qu...

A recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center, a think tank based in Washington, reveals that over half of individuals (53 per cent) claim to have had contact with a deceased relative. The study...

The Catholic Church's attempt to prevent a legal ruling allowing the father of a choirboy, allegedly sexually abused by Cardinal George Pell, from suing for damages, has been rejected initially. T...