A chapel that sheltered 9/11 rescue workers may be forced to close following a sharp rent rise to more than £200,000 because of high-end stores and luxury flat The Roman Catholic St Joseph's Chapel ...
Islamic State militants have kidnapped 90 Christians from a village in north-east Syria. The extremists were retreating from Tal Tamr in the face of a counter offensive by Kurdish forces when they ab...
At least 95 people have been killed in bomb explosions in the centre of the Turkish capital Ankara, the Dogan News agency has reported. 245 others are injured.The attack apparently targeted a peace r...
An international hymn sing-song on Sunday is raising awareness about parts of the world where there is little or no access to the gospel. Nearly 950,000 people have signed up to the Global Hymn Sing ...
A church that kept a family from deportation in the Netherlands have ended their continuous service as the family have been granted permission to stay. The Tamrazyan family have lived in Holland for ...
A Christian charity is asking for help to support more than nine thousand families that remain in Syria. Open Doors says it is one of the few groups left in the country helping those who cannot leave...
A Catholic priest who went missing in the Mexican state of Veracruz has been found three days after his disappearance. According to Church officials, the priest was found alive on 13 November but app...
The body of an abducted Nigerian clergyman who was taken alongside two colleagues has been found in the bush in north Nigeria. Revds Iliya Anto and Yakubu Dzarma of the United Church of Christ ...
A Christian pro-life activist has called a video appearing to show an executive of a US abortion provider discuss the sale of organs from an aborted foetus "tru Peter Williams, from Right to Life UK,...
Pope Francis has denounced abortion as the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics programme and urged families to accept the children that God gives Francis spoke off-the-cuff to a meetin...
The abortion law is to be devolved from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament giving MSPs control over the legal limit for a termination. Scottish Secretary David Mundell confirmed the move to the C...
Exit polls suggesting people in Ireland want abortion laws to be liberalised indicate a "strong reaction" against the country's Catholic heritage, an ex-Presbyt Very Rev Trevor Morrow, former moderat...
The unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Salvator Mundi at the Louvre Abu Dhabi has been indefinitely postponed, authorities say. Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism announced the dela...
A defrocked archbishop who died whilst awaiting a Vatican trial over child abuse claims suffered a heart attack, initial autopsy tests have revealed. "A natural cause of death, due to a cardiac event...
A woman who was abused by a priest in a children's hospital has quit a Vatican panel set up to tackle the issue, accusing some officials of a "shameful" lack of Marie Collins claims some Vatican staf...
The Catholic Church in Australia has paid compensation totalling £170 million (A$276 million) to thousands of child abuse survivors since 1980, an inquiry has Documents presented to a royal commiss...
Survivors of child abuse have raised $90,000 (around £45,000) to see Cardinal George Pell travel to Rome to give evidence. Australian comedian Tim Minchin even made a song to assist with the crowdfu...
Survivors of abuse at the hands of church leaders in Ballarat, in Victoria, Australia, will be given the profits from an estate formally used by a bishop who ha Ronald Mulkearns used the £1.2 millio...
Pope Francis has defrocked a Chilean priest who was a central character in the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy. The pontiff invoked his "supreme" authority to stiffen an earlier sentence ...
Cyprus's Orthodox Christian Church has defrocked a priest for sexually abusing his stepdaughter when she was a child. Kykkos Bishop Nikiforos said on Wednesday the Holy Synod's decision, a first...
