Only 60 per cent of the 650 MPs sworn in at Westminster this week chose to swear a religious oath. The number reflects the result of the 2021 census which showed 65 per cent of adults across the UK h...
A missionary worker has been wounded after being accidentally shot at a fair in Brazil. 49 year old Keyla Silva, who is also a gospel singer, was paying for an item at a kiosk when the gunman missed h...
The Spanish Catholic Church has approved a plan to make reparations to victims of sexual abuse in its midst, an initiative it hopes will be operational in a few months but which is opposed by the gove...
Nicaragua's government this week decreed the closure and seizure of assets of Radio Maria, the station formerly run by Bishop Rolando Alvarez, a prominent government critic now in exile at the Vat...
Poland's lower house rejected a bill on Friday that sought to scrap penalties for people who help someone to get an abortion. Under the draft law, people helping to arrange an abortion, for exampl...
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has called for the liberation of all political prisoners in Cuba, three years on from mass protests in the country. CSW has also called for human rights reforms, p...
Two United Methodist pastors have been killed in a car crash after attending a joint worship service together. Rev Charles Layton, 65, and Rev Carol Mart, 77, had carpooled to the event in Cedar Rap...
Firefighters extinguished a blaze at Rouen's historic Cathedral in northern France on Thursday to the relief of locals who had feared a repeat of the catastrophic Notre-Dame fire in Paris when t...
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had foiled what it called an attempted terrorist attack on an Orthodox Christian church in the south of the country, state news a...
Churches in Bushey are coming together to offer support for everyone affected by the deaths of three women on Tuesday. The wife and two daughters of racing commentator, John Hunt were victims of an ap...
The spire of Rouen Cathedral in northern France caught fire on Thursday and firefighters said they were in the process of controlling it after earlier TV footage showed a thick plume of dark smoke ri...
A former Church of England vicar has been charged with eight counts of indecent assault and one of grievous bodily harm with intent. 81-year-old Jonathan Fletcher, who was a vicar at Emmanuel Church W...
Former Liverpool striker Roberto Firmino has announced his new role as a pastor of an evangelical church in Brazil. The Champions and Premier League winner was consecrated at his founding church in Ma...
The Anglican and Episcopal Church in Jerusalem have protested the closure of Al-Ahli Arab Anglican Hospital in Gaza City as a result of the evacuation of several residential districts ordered by th...
The global Catholic Church is split on whether to allow women to serve as deacons, a Vatican document showed on Tuesday, just weeks after Pope Francis ruled out any opening on the issue. Giving women ...
Artwork depicting Jesus carrying the cross with a ‘Looney Tunes’ cartoon face has been removed from a gallery in Sydney, Australia after online protestors said it "mocked Christianity". The painti...
President Joe Biden has told a congregation in his home state of Philadelphia that “faith without works is dead.” Days after saying that “only the Lord almighty” could pluck him from the presi...
A group of 11 Vietnamese Christians arrested for their faith are now missing, according to anti-persecution organisation International Christian Concern. The group consists of Protestants and five...
Tattoo artist and TV personality Kat Von D has recently opened up about her decision to cover her existing tattoos with solid black ink, a transformation she began last October. In an interview with I...
The Catholic Church is set to allocate 104 million Canadian dollars (£60m) to compensate hundreds of sexual abuse victims in eastern Canada. Following a 2020 legal finding, the Archdiocese of St. Joh...
