Christians in seven countries are being urged to pray during Lent for families at risk from climate change. It's hoped tens of thousands of believers will also call on governments to uphold their ple...
Christians are being encouraged to pray for both candidates in the US election race as the vote looms closer and the personal attacks go deeper. Christina Rees, American religious commentator a...
A Christian charity has urged people not to forget about the Dapchi schoolchild being held captive by Boko Haram. 15-year-old Leah Sharibu was among 110 schoolchildren kidnapped in Nigeria by the ter...
Christians are being urged to pray for the containment o Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), as the African country is faced with its 10t Medair UK warned "containment is vital...
Believers are being urged to pray for "hurting" families who have lost their homes to wildfires which continue to rage across swathes of Tennessee. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate th...
Christians are being encouraged to pray for the Muslim world as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan gets underway. Open Doors is highlighting how the period of prayer and fasting presents "multiple cha...
Christians in the UK are being asked to pray for Nepal as it marks two years since its devestating earthquakes. Around nine thousand people were killed while eight million lives were effected by the ...
A Christian expert on Syria has called for Christians to pray for the very "complex issue surrounding the US removing its troops from the northeast of Syria." On Monday night President Donald Trump a...
It's World Refugee Sunday this weekend. The number of displaced people around the world has risen to more than 45.2 million people and is increasing by the second. It's being described as the most se...
Investigators in Russia are linking two bombings in the city of Volgograd. A priest at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral in London is calling for prayer for Russia as it comes to terms with the second b...
There's a call to pray for the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo with a proposed ceasefire appearing to fail and millions facing starvation. Aid has been unable to enter the city ravaged by fighting bet...
The persecution of Christians in Nigeria is not getting enough attention according to a charity. Christian Solidarity Worldwide is appealing for prayers for the country as the international focus shi...
The American International Church in London has urged Christians to respond with love to terror incidents in the wake of Tuesday's attack in New York. The instruction follows US President Donald Trum...
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has joined 26 organisations in signing a letter to the United Nations (UN) leader Ban Ki-moon, urging him to intervene in A The Chief Executive of CSW, Mervyn Tho...
High profile Christians who endorsed Donald Trump to be United States president are being accused of a "failure in leadership". Yesterday Trump gave a press conference in response to an explosive dos...
Refugees living in the migrant camp in Calais are preparing to celebrate Christmas as bad weather hits the area. The so-called jungle has thousands of residents, a church, mosque, shops and restauran...
Church leaders are taking legal action against a bus operator which refused to display an advertisement promoting the true meaning of Christmas. The Archdiocese of Washington in the US hopes a federa...
Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church, which represents a large portions of Christians in the country, has announced it will not hold public Christmas celebrations th The head of the Church, Patriarch Loui...
Orthodox Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas Day. The Orthodox Church follows a different calendar to those in the West, with the birth of Jesus falling on the 7 January instead of ...
A Coptic Christian couple have been found dead in their bed in northern Egypt in the second fatal attack during the Orthodox Christmas. Gamal Sami, 60, and his wife, Nadia, 48, were discovered "drenc...
