Leaders in Ukraine claim Russia has bombed a church in a horrifying Easter attack. This weekend marked the Orthodox Easter, an occasion that will have seen many of Ukraine's churches filled with c...
Pope Francis on Sunday rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago about one of his predecessors as pontiff, Sa...
President Vladimir Putin on Sunday attended an Easter service conducted by the Russian Orthodox Church, which has strongly backed the Kremlin leader's decision to invade Ukraine. Putin, dressed in...
Former secretary of state Michael Pompeo has announced that he will not be running for President of the United States in the 2024 election in order to focus being a Sunday school teacher. In a st...
A trial date has been set for three men accused of being involved with a funeral shooting outside a church in London. The drive-by attack took place at St Aloysius Church in Euston on the 14th o...
Tributes are being paid to George Verwer, the founder of Operation Mobilisation, following his death. The 84-year-old missionary died last night, surrounded by his family, at his home near London, fol...
US President Joe Biden experienced an emotional encounter at an Irish church when he unexpectedly met the priest who performed the last rites for his late son, Beau. Father Richard Gibbons, who guided...
Thousands of Palestinian Christians and pilgrims from around the world filled Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday to celebrate the Orthodox Holy Light ceremony, under a heavy Israeli police presence ...
Pope Francis confirmed on Friday that in September he plans to go to Mongolia, a country that has fewer than 1,500 Catholics but is strategically significant for the Roman Catholic Church because it b...
Four followers of a controversial Kenyan church teacher have been found dead and another dozen in need of urgent hospital treatment after being found in a forest location in eastern Kilfi county. Acco...
Pope Francis has announced the appointment of His Excellency Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía as the new Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain. The news has been welcomed by Cardinal Vincent N...
One of the world's oldest churches, built on top of a cave in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and festooned with golden icons, attracts thousands of Christian pilgrims every year. But the Chu...
The leader of Lebanon’s biggest church in his Easter message has called for the country’s huge refugee population to be deported from the country. Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai heads th...
Israeli police will curb the number of worshippers in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for safety reasons during Orthodox Easter ceremonies on Saturday, drawing anger from church leaders ...
The Christian Association of Nigeria has received an apology from the manufacturers of Peak Milk, after it used Jesus’ crucifixion as a metaphor to promote its product on Good Friday. The contro...
Scientists have unearthed scripture from the Gospels written more than 1,500 years ago, using UV light. The Syriac text was discovered under three layers of manuscript, after ultraviolet light was app...
A church in the US is mourning the loss of Josh Barrick, one of the five people killed at a mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky on Monday. The 40-year-old was a parishioner at Holy Trinity, where he...
The United Bible Societies (UBS) has announced that a record-breaking number of 57 new translations of the Bible or its parts were completed in 2022. Out of these, 14 were full translations such as th...
One of Italy's most enduring mysteries - the disappearance of a Vatican schoolgirl 40 years ago - entered a new chapter on Tuesday when her brother met with a Vatican investigator whom Pope Franci...
New data has revealed an upward trend in criminal acts towards American churches over the past few years, with attacks surging to new highs in the first quarter of 2023. Family Research Council (FRC),...
