Bibles have been handed out in The Jungle in Calais so that refugees, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, can read the text in their own language. Rachel Rounds, from the Bible Society told Premi...
YouVersion has announced that its Bible app has now been installed more than 300 million times. Thanks to the worldwide YouVersion Community and generous partners, the Bible App has been installed 30...
Christian Aid has said fighting in South Sudan has left around 300,000 people without aid in the region. It has reported that more than 100,000 people have fled from their homes in the last ten days....
A Christian charity has welcomed the release of 35 Christians who were imprisoned for their faith in Eritrea. The believers spent four and a half years in jail because they belonged to unregistered C...
Monitoring groups in the Middle East are reporting that 37 Assyrian Christians have been released from kidnap in Syria. It is thought that they were abducted in February in the Hasakah province.The A...
A Catholic priest who had been reported kidnapped has been found dead in central Mexico. Prosecutors in Morelos state said a relative identified the body of Father Moises Fabila Reyes, 83.He appears ...
The vice chairman of the Evangelical Alliance in Italy says humanity has a moral responsibility to rescue migrants, after more than 400 people drowned off the c "It is our responsibility to rescue an...
A major church led by world-renowned pastor TB Joshua has collapsed in Nigeria, killing 41 and injuring many others. Rescuers managed to pull around 130 people from the rubble of a guest house being ...
At least 44 people have been killed and dozens wounded after bomb attacks on two Egyptian churches claimed by the Islamic State group. Egypt's Health Ministry said an explosion at a church in the coa...
Police in France have discovered 4kg of cocaine and 200g of cannabis inside a car bearing Vatican diplomatic plates. Officers stopped the vehicle on Sunday at a toll station near Chambéry in the Fr...
Five men accused of murdering a Christian woman accused of blasphemy in northern Nigeria, have been acquitted. In June a 74-year-old street vendor, Bridget Patience Agbahime, was beaten to death by a...
Five Indian Christians wrongly accused of killing a 84 year old Hindu monk have been found innocent after spending eleven years in prison. Bhaskar Sunamajhi, Buddhadev Nayak, Durjo Sunamajhi, Sanatan...
Five out of six Iraqi Christians have fled the country since the outbreak of war in 2003. Anti-persecution charity Open Doors is pushing the government to aid faith leaders in Iraq and Syria to bet...
The leaders of Catholics and Jews in England and Wales have celebrated 50 years since a special Catholic declaration clearing the Jews of any blame regarding Je The Nostra Aetate was passed by the Se...
Pope Francis has celebrated an open air mass at a football stadium in South Korea. More than 50,000 Catholics attended the service on day two of the Holy Father's trip to the country.In his homily, t...
More than half a million people have visited the US Museum of the Bible since it opened six months ago, the museum has revealed. According to post-visit surveys, more than 90 per cent of guests to th...
Half a million people have given Pope Francis a hero's welcome in Ecuador's biggest city as he celebrated the first public Mass of his South American tour. The pontiff used the occasion to tell them ...
Six unregistered Protestant churches have been shut down in Guiyang, a city in south west China this week. All churches are from the same district but it is believed similar closures are occurring ...
A little boy who survived the Texas church massacre has returned home. Then five-year-old Ryland Ward was part of a Sunday morning service at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs in which a gun...
A Human Rights report shows that Islamic State militants (IS) has abducted around 230 people, including 60 Christians. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that IS militants abducted the ...
