Catholic Church leaders in Madagascar have urged a return to dialogue after the Indian Ocean island's president was forced ...

It is not always easy to be a Christian in Pakistan, where prisoners who are followers of the faith and adherents of other ...

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has welcomed the news of the release of Israeli hostages and ...

On the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks led by Hamas in Israel, Pope Leo XIV and the World Council of Churches head ...

The World Council of Churches has praised reforms proposed by the United Nations, but notes that more needs to be done, including reform of the Security Council, which is currently dominated by the ...

People in Gaza are facing starvation, and more Jewish groups have joined global religious voices in stepped-up calls for immediate aid and respect for human life as Israeli hoztages stay captured and ...

Pastor Andy Stanley on Monday delivered a sermon during a service attended by President Barack Obama at St. John's Church to start off his ceremonial inaugural day activities. Stanley, who leads North ...

The Second World War ended just over eighty years ago, and this month, German church figures have remembered German theologian and anti-Nazi resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed as ...

A Roman Catholic priest from Nigeria, Father Lawrence Iwuamadi, is the new academic dean of the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, just outside Geneva. It is not the first time ...

The Southern Baptist Convention is still the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, despite losing more than a quarter of a million members from 2023 to 2024, statistics compiled by ...

Pope Leo XIV arrived at his inaugural mass in a white vehcile, called for church unity in a homily, and later prayed for people suffering from war and those marginalized. At the end of his May 18 ...

India's Christian community had a year marked by increasing challenges and persecution in 2024, data from various research shows. Data from various organizations paint a sobering picture of the ...