An American missionary who was dramatically rescued from captivity in South Africa has publicly thanked God for bringing him home safely. Josh Sullivan, a pastor from Tennessee, was abducted by armed ...

A Nigerian bishop has issued a strong condemnation of the government’s failure to protect Christians, following a week of brutal attacks that left nearly 200 believers dead - including 56 killed in a ...

The US state of Alabama has passed a trio of bills, including a mandate to display the Ten Commandments in schools, a ban on LGBT pride flags, and restrictions on gender-related discussions and ...

Countries around the world, particularly Catholic majority ones have been reacting to the news of Pope Francis' death yesterday aged 88 with many instigating periods of state mourning. State mourning ...

A disgraced former vicar who stole nearly £6,000 from church funds sent a series of abusive, drunken texts to the Bishop of Blackburn, telling him to “go to hell,” a court heard. Father Matthew ...

Predict who the next pope will be at your peril. An old Italian saying warns against putting faith, or money, in any presumed front-runner ahead of the conclave, the closed-door gathering of cardinals ...

Members of Gaza's tiny Christian community said they were "heartbroken" on Monday at the death of Pope Francis, who campaigned for peace for the devastated enclave and spoke to them on the phone every ...

Tributes have been flooding in after Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday. He was 88, and had recently suffered a serious bout of double pneumonia ...