In his first Christmas message as head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV issued a call for "peace and consolation for the ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed a new bishop with outspoken pro-migrant beliefs — right on President Donald Trump's patch.

Five communist nations are severely restricting the flow of funding into Christian churches and implementing stringent ...

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has told a Global Refugee Forum Progress Review 2025 plenary ...

Pope Leo XIV has joined world church leaders in condemning a lethal attack on the Jewish community in Sydney, Australia, gathered for Hanukkah or the Feast of Lights.

Pope Leo XIV has welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo to discuss the ...

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 ...

Two of the top church leaders in the Holy Land have toured the Christian Palestinian town of Taybeh in the West Bank, the scene of several attacks by militant settlers in recent weeks, and charge that ...

Pope Leo XIV is in Turkiye and will be joined by the World Council of Churches general secretary, Rev. Jerry Pillay and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for a special anniversary in the Christian ...

The new Ecumenical Centre—where the World Council of Churches will spend at least the next three years—is in Kyoto adjacent to the old one but is sparkling and new. Kyoto isn't in Japan—it's in the ...

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 ...