The head of the worldwide Anglican Communion said he had expressed his “grief and dismay” to the Ugandan Church over its support for the country’s anti-gay law.

A priest in Athens has been suspended after including two girls as altar servers in a church service, angering hardliners in the country’s all-male Orthodox church.

Pope Francis will undergo an operation for a painful abdominal hernia on Wednesday, reviving concerns over his increasingly fragile health.

Pope Francis plans to meet privately with victims of clerical abuse during his visit to the Portuguese capital Lisbon for World Youth Day in August.

Pope Francis offered his support to Catholics in China, marking the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China.

#YoungFamousandAfrican star Luis Munana speaks candidly about his strained relationship with his family due to their church’s rigid rules.

A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old sold for $38.1 million in New York, setting a record for the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction.

Pope Francis called for politicians to find solutions to reverse Italy’s declining birthrate, warning young people starting families in a precarious enviroment.

More than a hundred people, including children, have been confirmed dead in Kenya’s worst cult mass suicide.

Kenyan authorities arrested another pastor over the suspected deaths at his church as police widen an investigation linked to a cult leader.

Organised by Austria’s leading group representing Catholic nuns and monks, several tattoos were inked free-of-charge over the weekend.

Tinubu’s unprecedented choice of a fellow Muslim as vice-president is likely to increase ethnic and religious tensions.

The jury is out on whether Humza Yousaf can deliver independence for Scotland. But history’s verdict will be clear as the first Muslim leader of the nation.

A shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses centre in the German city of Hamburg has left eight people dead, including the suspected gunman.

The late Polish pope John Paul II knew about child abuse in Poland’s Catholic church years before becoming pontiff and helped cover it up.

Seattle has become the first city in the United States to ban discrimination based on caste, following a city council vote on Tuesday.

Indian police said they had arrested one man over the murder of two Muslim men, after they were abducted for alleged cow smuggling.

Activists in Malaysia criticised on Thursday a government decision to ban three books for allegedly promoting “LGBTQ lifestyles”.

Australian police on Thursday blamed a family’s Christian fundamentalist beliefs for a “terrorist attack” that killed three people.

An eight-year-old girl in India who stood to inherit a multi-million-dollar diamond fortune has instead been inducted as a nun to a strict religious order.

UN rights experts on Monday deplored a reported rise in abductions, forced marriages and conversions of girls from Pakistan’s religious minorities.

US President Joe Biden visited the Vatican embassy in Washington and signed a book of condolences for former pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Francis will preside Thursday over the funeral of his predecessor Benedict XVI at the Vatican, an unprecedented event in modern times expected to draw tens of thousands of people.

Recently, the Catholic Church has come to recognise Sister Maria Carola Cechin as “Blessed” – but how did we get here.

A woman sentenced to two years in jail for “insulting Islam” in a Facebook post is almost a fortnight into a hunger strike.