The daughter of Desmond Tutu has said giving up her job as a vicar to marry her girlfriend was "incredibly sad" for both him and her. Mpho Tutu van Furth practised as a vicar from January 2004 ...
A new Sister Act movie is to be made, Disney has confirmed. The film maker said it had started development on a revival of the musical comedy which is based in a convent. Whoopi Goldberg was the star ...
The star of the US series "Dog the Bounty Hunter" has shared the Bible verse he wants to hear about when he is close to death. Speaking in an emotional interview with television show Entertainment To...
The Catholic Church in Mexico has accused the country's government of adopting an attitude of fear over Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigrants, labellin The accusation was made in an editoria...
The Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has accused US President Barak Obama of founding Islamic State (IS). He uses Obama's full name, Barack Hussein Obama, and said: "In many respe...
As Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the USA, Christians from all political backgrounds have been having their say. The tycoon-turned-politician addressed hundreds of thousands of ...
Donald Trump will swear the oath for becoming United States president using both a childhood Bible and the one used at the inauguration of President Abraham Lin Trump's mother, from Scotland, gave hi...
US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump asked people to raise their hands at a rally if they were not conservative Christians before he suggested making them leave At an event in Iowa on Wednesday he as...
The Republican presidential candidate and Christian Donald Trump plans to speak at a predominantly black church in an attempt to engage more non-white voters.&n At present Democratic nominee Hillary ...
United States president elect Donald Trump has confirmed he will not seek to overturn gay marriage legislation. He was "fine" with same sex marriage, he said in an interview after his election, despi...
Donald Trump has effectively won the Republican nomination to run for US President. The billionaire businessman beat rival Ted Cruz in the latest primary election in Indiana winning 51% of the vote v...
A New York church which has had two statues of Jesus stolen, has had its most recent statue broken off its base after a drunk man tried to kiss it. The Williamsburg church had its first statue ...
The Egyptian president has stressed his commitment to ensuring Muslims and Christians are treated equally under the law, amid a spate of murders of Coptic belie According to Fides, President Abdel Fa...
Members of President Trump's evangelical advisory board have met with Egypt's president to discuss his administration's commitment to religious freedom for all Christian author Joel Rosenberg organi...
Prosecutors in Egypt have thrown out a case against a Muslim mob that alleged the group had stripped an elderly Christian woman and paraded her naked through th Souad Thabet, 70, was assaulted in May...
A fifth Coptic Christian has been murdered in Egypt in two weeks, a Christian news agency has reported. According to World Watch Monitor, Ishak Ibrahim Fayez Younan was found murdered in a flat he re...
A video has appeared online showing a mob attacking Christians and their homes in northern Egypt. The footage shows the gang throwing stones, breaking glass and chanting in Saft al-Kharsah village in...
A Christian plumber has been murdered in front of his family by suspected Islamic militants, Egyptian security officials say. Investigators told Associated Press that militants had forced their way i...
A number of Coptic Christians gathered outside a court in Cairo at the weekend to protest against their treatment by the justice system. Just under 50 believers chanted slogans and held banners calli...
The persecution of Christians in Eritrea is taking place in a "widespread and systematic manner", a report for the United Nations has found. A Commission of Inquiry on human rights in Eritrea found t...
