Pope Francis prays during a Eucharistic celebration in the Vatican, on the final day of a summit on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church From Australian country towns to schools in Ireland and ...

At least 436 bodies have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church deep in the forest about 40 miles from the coastal town of Malindi 17 months ago in one of the deadliest ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

In the fall of 2008, newspapers, talk shows and blogs exploded with news that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the African American minister from Chicago's Trinity Church, had denounced the United States ...

Brad Ruggles had already begun wrestling with his evangelical faith when he was called to launch a small church in a north Indianapolis suburb. As he pastored over his 200-member congregation ...

The priest of the village of Yasnohorodka, near Kyiv, stands inside his destroyed church Ukraine has accused Russia of damaging or destroying at least 59 religious sites across the country since ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

I enjoy occasionally taking my children to various churches to expose them to diverse religious experiences. Recently, our ...

Monumental and full of charm, beautifully preserved and withered by time, full of history and legend. Here are 15 exceptional churches of Poland, dating from the Middle Ages through to contemporary ...

PLANS to turn a disused church into a mosque have been blocked by the Church Commissioners. While these proposals never materialised, the restrictive covenant put in place — prohibiting the use of the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The Church of England is increasingly dropping the word “church” in favour of “relevant and modern-sounding” descriptions ...