China's president has urged the Communist Party to safeguard China's sovereignty and promote religion that is "Chinese in orientation". President Xi Jinping opened a twice-a-decade national congress ...
China's President Xi Jinping is warning of religious influences that could infiltrate the country from abroad. Â Over the past 24 months, Chinese authorities have been waging a campaign to remove cr...
An underground Catholic bishop is thought to be on the run from Chinese security agents after refusing to sign up to a government sanctioned 'independent church The country is home to around 12 milli...
Authorities in China have removed organs from the body of Christian prisoner Peng Ming against the wishes of his family. A statement from the family released on China Aid claimed authorities had trie...
Christian protesters in China clashed with hundreds of police officers who converged on one of the state-run churches to install surveillance equipment. The government in China's coastal Zhejiang P...
A group of 15 Chinese Christians were detained after more than 20 police officers raided a house church in Sichuan province. According to human rights organisation, China Aid, authorities interrupted...
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 provi...
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 Paris, was ...
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...
