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Seven Christians have been detained in China in what is said to be a row over church crosses. Authorities took Pastor Bao Guohua, his wife and five church employees into custody at Holy Love Christia...

Christians in China are losing their benefit payments in the ongoing crackdown on Christianity, a charity is warning.  China Aid has reported that a local governing body in the central Guizhou p...

A Christian political prisoner was attacked by a police officer because his beard was too long. According to China Aid Zhu YuFu, 65, was confronted by a police officer about the length of his beard o...

A lawyer of an imprisoned Chinese pastor has said that his client is in need of vital medical care. Pastor Yang Hua, the leader of Living Stone Church, is said to be "on the verge of paralysis" after...

At least nine Christians have been arrested in recent days in China for opposing the removal of crosses from churches, it has been reported. The ruling Communist party has detained a number of people...

A pastor in China has been jailed for five years after judges ruled she was guilty of "illegal business operations". Zhang Xiuhong (centre), the former deacon of Living Stone Church, had been held wi...

A priest in Paris says the families of victims of the Paris attacks are "broken" as a result of these acts of terror. Father Aiden Troy, of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in central Par...

A bleeding communion wafer was not a miracle and was in fact caused by mouldy bread, the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City has said. A committee had been appointed to investigate after the host turn...

Police have praised an usher who subdued a gunman who opened fire inside a church in the US state of Tennessee on Sunday morning. A masked man fired shots inside the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ ...

The words "bride" and "groom" are being removed from new marriage liturgy coming into force at Lutheran churches across Norway on Wednesday. The gender-neutral text comes after the country's Lutheran...

A Christian man left almost completely blind by a debilitating disease has been able to read his Bible and see his family again following transformative surgery Desire from rural Cameroon in Central ...

Plans to set up a new police unit across Europe to find and block social media accounts being used by Islamic State have been criticised. Nick Megoran, Christian and political geography lecturer, tol...

The trial of a Russian blogger accused of inciting religious hatred by playing Pokemon Go in a church began today. Ruslan Sokolovsky, 22, was arrested after he was filmed catching Pokémon at the hei...

Two board members have resigned from the Vatican bank over disagreements about the management and mission of the institution. Reforms under Pope Francis, by the Institute for Religious Works, has tri...

The family of Bobbi Kristina Brown say the 22 year old is "finally at peace in the arms of God". The daughter of singer Whitney Houston died on Sunday at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Georgi...

The bodies of 20 Christians slain by Islamic State in Libya more than three years ago have finally been flown home for burial. Their remains were flown from the Libyan city of Misrata to Cairo, accor...

A body recovered in a church in Madrid is thought to be that of the famous Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. A body recovered in a church in Madrid is thought to be that of the famous Spanish autho...

A militant group in Nigeria which is holding more than 200 mostly Christian school girls hostage has denied a ceasefire which would have seen them released. Last month the Nigerian government announc...

Christian Aid has said the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has put millions of Nigerians in urgent need of food, clean water and sanitation. The humanitarian charity says the jihadists have been m...

Eight Christians have been killed in northeast Nigeria during a Boko Haram attack.  The Islamist terror group whose name roughly translates into 'Western education is banned' launched three atta...