The World Council of Churches has added its voice to UN agencies expressing grave concern over reports from El Fasher, in ...

President Donald Trump says he has ordered the U.S. Defence Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria as he accuses the West African nation of not doing enough to stem violence ...

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 ...

Christians meeting in Egypt, 1,700 years after a key event in the history of their faith, have reaffirmed their commitment to the Nicene Creed, which states, "We affirm one, holy, catholic and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Francis has called for negotiations to end Ukraine's war in a Christmas Day message where he appealed for the laying down of weapons in global conflicts and reconciliation between enemies.

A UN-hosted high-level event has provided a platform to come together to examine how to prevent and address violations against children swept into armed conflict, with worldwide religious ...

The Gospel must not be instrumentalized by politics – and churches should never apologize for reading the Bible or for preaching the Gospel, the World Council of Churches moderator Bishop Heinrich ...