Five Christian women have held a nativity-themed climate change protest inside the National Gallery in London. The members of Christian Climate Action stood in front of a 15th-century Filippino Lippi ...
Churches on the island of Maui are putting denominational differences aside, and joining together for Christmas services, for congregations whose churches were lost in the devastating fire four months...
Ukraine's Interior Ministry on Friday placed the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, a backer of the Kremlin's 21-month-old war against Kyiv, on a wanted list after security services accused...
Catholic single mothers should be encouraged and not prevented from taking part in Holy Communion, the church has affirmed, in a letter which seeks to clarify the doctrinal position on the matter. The...
A church in Texas has sparked a backlash on social media for holding an extravagant Christmas service, which featured nearly 1,000 performers, including flying angels and real sheep and camels. A cli...
A new Bishop of Carlisle won’t be appointed before 2025 after the Crown Nominations Commission failed to decide on a suitable candidate. In a statement, the Archbishop of York Most Rev Stephen Cottr...
The Prime Minister has thanked Christians and churches for a campaign bringing hope to communities across the country. Hundreds of Shine Your Light events are being held across the UK and Ireland and ...
The Salvation Army has officially opened its new UK and Ireland Territory headquarters in south London, having sold its previous base in Elephant and Castle, in central London, in 2020. A plaque was ...
The Virginia Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit accusing the West Point School Board of violating the rights of a high school teacher, Peter Vlaming, by firing him for refusing to use personal pro...
The Church of Scotland is appealing to the Home Office to allow a refugee from Sudan to bring her family to the UK. The Church says Kaltouma Haroun Ibrahim is a valued member of the community at Gorba...
Charismatic minister and founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC), Mike Bickle, has admitted to “inappropriate behaviour” and “moral failures” more than 20 years ago. ...
An English Heritage historian is challenging what we think we know about Christmas carols. Dr Michael Carter says many carols actually started out with very different tunes or no tune at all. Reveller...
The Christian charity Tearfund is urging Christians in the UK to be inspired into action after the COP summit in Dubai, where for the first time ever, language about reducing fossil fuels has been inc...
Anglicans with traditional views on marriage say they are saddened by the Church of England’s decision to offer blessings for same sex couples in church from this Sunday. It follows a vote yesterday...
Pope Francis, who has shunned much of the Vatican's pomp and privilege, has decided to vastly simplify the elaborate funeral rites for a pontiff and be the first one to be buried outside the Vatic...
A small part of a dead person's cremated ashes may be stored in a place that was dear to them rather than in a church or cemetery, the Vatican said on Tuesday, softening its previous stance on the...
The Church of England has announced that blessings for same-sex couples can take place within existing church services from this Sunday, 17 December. Yesterday afternoon the House of Bishops voted by...
Five years after a government crackdown in China saw over 100 members of the Early Rain Church arrested in Sichuan Province, authorities have prevented leaders and members from taking part in an onlin...
A teacher has been found dead at a church in London where his pupils had performed their nativity just hours earlier. The man's body was discovered at St Matthew's church in Bayswater at jus...
The only Catholic church in Gaza has been damaged in an attack. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has confirmed to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that shrapnel from Israeli army ...
