The number of Catholic priests in Europe has dropped by nearly a quarter since 1980, according to a US university study. The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University fou...
Families living in flimsy buildings around Haiti are being urged to take refuge in churches and schools, as Hurricane Matthew closes in on the Caribbean nation. The warning from the country's interim...
A shipment of Bibles destined for Sudan has finally been released after being held in Port Sudan for six years. A source told World Watch monitor, which follows cases of Christian persecution, said t...
A church serving east London's Tamil community says members of its congregation have lost relatives in the Easter Sunday terror attacks which struck Sri Lanka. Elim Tamil Church, which meets at a sch...
A huge church built as a glass high heel has been created in eastern Taiwan. The shoe has been created entirely from blue tinted glass and measures around 55 feet tall and 36 feet wide.It took two mo...
Investigators think an electrical short-circuit was the most likely cause of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire, according to a French judicial police official. The official said investigators still do no...
Anglicans in the United States have been challenged over whether they will be praying for US-President elect Donald Trump. The question was posed by the Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal ...
A bishop from Sierra Leone has been telling Premier that Ebola is still having an effect on his community despite the epidemic no longer being out of control. Rt Revd Emmanuel Tucker is in the UK rai...
A Christian from Sierra Leone who helps former child soldiers and victims of Ebola has addressed the Queen and thousands of others at a service in Westminster A PJ Cole, 29, runs a charity called Lif...
A health worker at Christian charity World Vision who's advising the government in Sierra Leone on how to deal with the Ebola outbreak has raised questions abou Allieu Bangura told Premier people in ...
Schools have opened in Sierra Leone for the first time in nine months, with the Christian charity World Vision fearing children are returning with psychological The charity has been on the ground wor...
The family of a Christian mother who died in an Eritrean prison earlier this month fear she was tortured, after her body was found with scars. A relative of Fikadu Debesay, an evangelical mother of t...
A Christian school has been told by a tribunal that it unlawfully discriminated against a five-year-old boy by banning him from wearing his traditional Sikh pat Sikh boy wins battle to wear turban to...
Details surrounding the status of an Iranian Christian convert who was arrested 45 days ago and not heard from since have emerged. The family of Aziz Majidzadeh, 54, said they were contacted by him w...
The associate pastor of First Baptist Church has resigned over a series of offensive tweets made about Palo Alto in California. Rev Gregory Stevens tweeted that the city is as an "elitist s*** den of...
The founder of a Singapore mega-church has been found guilty of taking millions in donations from the church. It has been reported that Kong Hee, the founder and senior pastor of City Harvest Churc...
A Singaporean pastor has been jailed for eight years after committing the country's worst ever fraud by a charitable organisation. Kong Hee, 51, was sentenced along with five others from the City Har...
The pastor of one of Singapore's best-known churches has begged his congregation for forgiveness after a court found it had misused £28 million. Kong Hee (above, right), founder and lead pastor of C...
A Singaporean teenager faces up to three years in prison, after being found guilty of wounding religious feelings and obscenity. It's after Amos Yee, 16, made a YouTube video criticising the late Sin...
A teenager in Singapore has been sentenced to six weeks in jail for "wounding the religious feelings of Christians and Muslims."Â Seventeen-year-old Amos Yee pleaded guilty to the charges and has be...
