Three of the world's biggest Christian organizations have joined in Rome for an unprecedented move: a unified statement on ...

China has arrested scores of Christian pastors in a sweeping crackdown on unregistered churches, which illustrates President ...

It is one of the world's smallest armies and is said to be the oldest operating in the tiniest state on the planet. Now the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WITTENBERG, Germany – Five hundred years after the 16th century Reformer Martin Luther is said to have nailed his epoch-changing 95 protests to a church door in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, ...

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 ...

Some lawmakers in the United Kingdom have demanded that prayers in Parliament be scrapped, saying the tradition has no place in the 21st century. The government is facing calls to abolish prayers at ...

Both warring partners have consistently targeted Sudan's Christian community since the beginning of the Sudan war in acts that can be considered war crimes and crimes against humanity. Since April 15, ...