Pope Leo XIV and World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay have expressed sorrow and horror over an ...

People in Gaza are facing starvation, and more Jewish groups have joined global religious voices in stepped-up calls for ...

ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has claimed responsibility for a shocking assault on churchgoers at a Catholic ...

The World Council of Churches' general secretary, Rev. Jerry Pillay, recently called for unity in the church community in ...

Christmas is a bleak event in Bethlehem in 2024 -- there is no traditional Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as Jesus' birthplace.

Some lawmakers in the United Kingdom have demanded that prayers in Parliament be scrapped, saying the tradition has no place in the 21st century.

Medically assisted dying – also known as voluntary euthanasia – accounted for 4.7 percent of deaths in Canada in 2023, new government data shows.

Two of the top church leaders in the Holy Land have toured the Christian Palestinian town of Taybeh in the West Bank, the scene of several attacks by militant settlers in recent weeks, and charge ...

A Hindu-majority village in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh has banned a Christian family from living there after they refused to convert to Hinduism, the religion that almost 80 percent of ...

Despite the overwhelming support of lay delegates, the rejection of a motion to allow all children of unmarried mothers to be baptized in the Church of Ireland at its General Synod in Armagh has ...

He spoke at a showing of the film "Via Dolorosa, " which narrates the path of sorrow from the place where Christianity was born and where its presence is now severely threatened. The film, shown ...

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has expressed alarm at reports and images indicating a "disproportionately violent response" by Kenyan police and security ...