India's Christian community had a year marked by increasing challenges and persecution in 2024, data from various research ...

The politics of radical exclusion that prevailed at the time of Christ's birth are reflected in realities in South Africa and ...

Pope Francis has called for a "negotiation" to end the war in Ukraine in a Christmas Day message where he appealed for ...

Christmas is a bleak event in Bethlehem in 2024 -- there is no traditional Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church ...

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

In the United States, the political utterances of some evangelical leaders can create the impression that their churches are ...

A driver, said to be a Saudi who hates Islam, rammed a car into shoppers at the busy German Christmas market on Dec. 20, killing at least five people and injuring 200. One of those killed was a ...

"Last year, as a means of standing in solidarity with the multitudes suffering from the newly erupted war," said the church leaders in a Nov. 22 statement, "We, the Patriarchs and Heads of the ...

Pope Francis has called on the Syrian rebels who toppled President Bashar al-Assad's regime to stabilzse the country, and govern to promote national unity, as the World Council of Churches ...

If implemented the Russian move introduced as a draft law on Oct. 30, would hit the religious communities hard. Following the Russian Orthodox Church hierarchy, Catholic bishops are also opposing ...