The minority pro-Romanian branch of Moldova's Orthodox Church accused clergy from the rival Moscow-linked branch of the church of campaigning against a referendum asking voters whether they back t...
The mosaics of a mediaeval cathedral in Sicily, built by the island's last Norman king, are set to regain their golden lustre thanks to careful restoration work and new lighting. The Monreale ...
Pope Francis was sharply criticised on Saturday by one of Belgium's Catholic universities over his stance on the role of women in society, in a strongly worded press release issued just moments af...
Pope Francis was pressed firmly by Belgium's king and premier on Friday for more concrete action to address sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy, an issue once more in the spotlight as he visits....
A Roman Catholic diocese in Long Island, New York announced a new bankruptcy settlement on Thursday that would pay more than $323 million to about 530 sex abuse survivors who alleged they were abused ...
The archbishop of New York has warned Kamala Harris of losing the presidential election, after she did not turn up to the Al Smith dinner, which benefits Catholic charities. Cardinal Timothy Dolan sai...
A 62-year-old Iranian-Armenian pastor has been acquitted and freed after serving just over a year of a ten-year sentence in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Anooshavan Avedian had been imprisoned f...
The US political lobby group Evangelicals for Harris has launched a $1 million anti-Trump advertising campaign featuring the late evangelist Billy Graham. The ad features clips of Donald Trump intersp...
As Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD in 2008, she stumbled across a paper suggesting that bacteria, her field, could be used in art restora...
A man who was attacked by a hippo in Zambia is aiming to raise £20,000 for a Catholic mission hospital which saved his life. 63-year-old Roland Cherry was flipped from his canoe by a hippo while on�...
Artem Dmytruk, a Ukrainian MP currently residing in London, is preparing to challenge an extradition request from the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky. Dmytruk, a former member of Zelensky&#...
Vice President Kamala Harris recently found herself under scrutiny after a Bible reference went awry during a speech at the Economic Club of Pittsburgh. While discussing the balance between patience a...
A former member of Gateway Church in Texas has claimed she was expelled and escorted off the premises by armed guards for criticising the church’s handling of child sex abuse allegations against it...
A US judge has blocked a federal agency from enforcing a rule crafted by President Joe Biden's administration requiring employers to accommodate employees who have abortions or undergo certain fe...
Advocacy group Christian Concern is calling on the Health Secretary to intervene in the case of five nurses in Darlington who are taking an NHS Trust to court over being forced to share a changing roo...
Churches in Lebanon are opening their doors to those seeking refuge from the devastating impact of the ongoing attacks. Although the airstrikes are targeting the Islamist militia Hezbollah, they ar...
Survivors of sexual abuse in Belgium called on Pope Francis to take stronger action against perpetrators and push for deeper reforms in the Catholic Church, days ahead of his visit to Brussels. The 87...
Evangelical pastor, author, and radio personality Chuck Swindoll has announced his retirement as senior pastor of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas, after more than two decades of leadershi...
Vice-presidential candidate JD Vance has told a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, how he became a Christian, and claimed that Kamala Harris is “the biggest threat to religious democracy”. Follo...
For years until the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Father Ioann Burdin served as a priest in the Russian village of Karabanovo, 370 km (230 miles) northeast of Moscow. Now he is a convicted heretic, bann...
