A Christian pastor from the US has been arrested after a shooting at Capitol Hill, the equivalent to the Houses of Parliament, in America. Larry Dawson, a pastor from Tennessee, was shot inside the...
Dozens of villagers, many of them Christians, have been released by the Arakan Army in Myanmar. Religious freedom charity, International Christian Concern have confirmed the release of villagers on 1...
A group affiliated with Al-Qaeda has released footage of a captured nun pleading for Pope Francis to help secure her release in West Africa. A video of Gloria Cecilia Narváez was released by the gro...
A Catholic bishop from the Central African Republic is meeting MPs to discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the country. The CAR has been convulsed by religious violence since northern Seleka re...
A car on a terror watch-list has been found outside a French cathedral loaded with gas cylinders. Police said the car was discovered at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, on Saturday night.There were at le...
The tiny Fiat used by Pope Francis to travel around Philadelphia on his US trip is being offered for auction. The custom made vehicle has been valued at $30,000 by the Max Spann Real Estate and Aucti...
A leading Cardinal has admitted the Catholic Church made "enormous mistakes" in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests over centurie Australian Cardinal George Pell, one o...
A leading Peruvian newspaper has sacked Roman Catholic Cardinal Luis Cipriani from writing columns for the publication after he was caught plagiarising two form They were discovered by reporters at t...
Prosecutors have argued that child sex convictions against a Roman Catholic cardinal should not be overturned. Cardinal George Pell is the most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse and ...
Cardinals do not always choose "the most intelligent" of their lot to be pontiff, according to Pope Francis. A child asked Francis how he became pope during a visit to a parish in Rome on Sunday.He s...
The highest-ranking American at the Vatican insisted he never knew or even suspected his former boss, disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick (pictured above w Cardinal Kevin Farrell, head of the Va...
The leader of Catholics in England and Wales has said he is "deeply shocked by the brutal murder" of up to 300 Yazidis in Iraq. Islamic State has executed several hundred of the people west of Mosul,...
The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse has been sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral more Victoria state County Court Chief Judg...
A New York Cardinal says the city's annual St. Patrick's Day parade continues to have his support after organisers admitted a gay rights group for the first tim A lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsex...
A Polish cardinal has said he hopes Pope Francis will "deliver a warning to the world" when he visits Auschwitz next year. No date has yet been set, but Church leaders in Poland hope that Pope Franci...
The most senior Catholic Church leader to be convicted over child sexual abuse has launched a final bid to have his sentence overturned. Cardinal George Pell, who was the Vatican's treasurer, has con...
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has donated €150,000 (around £109,000) to a Catholic charity which allegedly paid for renovations to his luxury flat. The Italian Cardinal has defended the money he spent...
The canonisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman took place at the Vatican on Sunday, in a historic ceremony attended by tens of thousands. The Victorian priest, hymn writer, and poet was declared a Sa...
The leader of Catholics in England and Wales is encouraging the peace process in Colombia as the country emerges from 52 years of conflict. Cardinal Vincent Nichols has been speaking as Colombia's ...
The leader of Catholics in England and Wales has asked for prayers for South Sudan as conflict continues in the country. Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Bishop William Kenney, from the diocese of Birm...
