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 ...

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power and Justice in an American Church. By Eliza Griswold. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 352 pages; $30. Headline; £25 THEY CONGREGATED in an opioid-plagued ...

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 ...

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 ...

He is the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of the universal Church, Primate of Italy; hmong others. As the Bishop of Rome he is the head of the Latin or Roman rite. This is by far the largest rite in the Church.

Early in the morning on Monday, September 2, a fire broke out in the 19th-century church in the northern French town of Saint-Omer. No-one was hurt, but the church's steeple has collapsed.

The choir for girls aged 11-17 sing at the weekly 6pm Sunday service in the church. Find out more about the choristers and how your child can get involved. Find out more about the current status of ...

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 ...

Two men cut a hole in the shutters of the church on Templemore Street An arson attack on a church in east Belfast is being treated as a racially-motivated hate crime, the Police Service of ...

The Pope was the head of the Catholic Church and lived in Rome. He set out rules and guidelines that would be put into action by church leaders and personnel across Europe. An example of such a ...

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