The Vatican urged bishops and high-profile lay Catholic leaders on Monday to tone down their comments on social media, saying some were causing division and stoking polemics that harmed the entire Chu...
Churches from across California gathered on the beach to witness a mass baptism of over 4,000 people on Pentecost Sunday. Advertised as the ‘biggest water baptism event in history’, Baptiz...
Pope Francis called on Wednesday for freedom of worship for Catholics in China, a religious minority that has faced historic harassment and persecution in the communist country, causing friction betwe...
Roman Catholic Church leaders in Bolivia said on Wednesday the institution had been "deaf" to sexual abuse in Church-run schools and said they were taking action after a series of accusation...
A church in the US state of Arkansas is mourning the loss of their pastor’s two daughters after the family was involved in a train collision. Local news outlet reports say Pastor Chad Fryar from...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has recently unveiled its use of the Bible and other religious texts in training its advanced multilingual Artificial Intelligence technology. This ...
The host of an Australian TV show that came under fire earlier this year for allowing a guest to make an off-colour joke about Jesus has criticised the producers’ decision to air it. Sarah Harri...
Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday dismissed his expert on art and restoration for obstructing the transfer of a historic 15th-century Trinity icon to the Church from a...
Nicaraguan police said on Saturday they are investigating several dioceses of the Catholic Church for money laundering, a day after local media reported that the bank accounts of parishes in the...
Protestors have taken to Jos, the capital of Nigeria's Plateau State, in response to the ongoing killings by a militia often referred to as 'armed herdsmen'. Over 130 people were kil...
A church that had disappeared underwater in 1362 has finally been re-discovered. Scientists have been trying to determine the location of Rungholt, a medieval town, for more than a century, afte...
Christian politicians in the UK are joining calls for the release of a Nigerian man sentenced to hanging for sending a "blasphemous" message. Yahayu Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by ha...
Once the mass murder of their people began, Safari Jean Bosco and his mother, sister and brothers sought refuge in a Catholic church along with over 2,000 others packed into the building. Some prayed ...
Ukraine's main Orthodox church said on Wednesday it had decided to switch to a calendar in which Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December, a move that distances it from Russia. Ukrainian Ch...
The world must rapidly ditch fossil fuels and end "the senseless war against creation", Pope Francis said this week, in a fresh plea over climate change that called on people to repent for t...
People in the US are flocking to see the ‘Miracle in Missouri’ after word spread of a recently exhumed remains of a nun which showed little sign of decomposition. Sister Wilhelmina Lancast...
The government has asked religious institutions in Ireland to pay towards a compensation scheme set-up for survivors of Mother and Baby Homes. These were institutions where unmarried mothers were sent...
A wave of ethnically-driven church destructions and village burnings has not halted in India’s north-east state of Manipur, according to a regional Christian leader. “It is still continuin...
Some 2,000 Illinois children were sexually abused by Roman Catholic clergy between the 1950s and 2010s, the state attorney general said in a report released on Tuesday that also detailed how abuse was...
A senior pastor whose nine-year-old daughter was murdered in a school shooting in the US state of Tennessee earlier this year has delivered his first sermon since the tragic loss. “First o...
