Three evangelical leaders in Switzerland have filed a lawsuit challenging a recent constitutional amendment that bans ...

Leaders of major churches say that Israeli authorities are launching a "coordinated attack" on the Christian presence in the ...

A delegation from the World Council of Churches has made a solidarity visit to Ukraine, which it said is "walking in hope and ...

Concerns are growing that the oldest Protestant church in Iran, and its surrounding buildings, may be demolished, after residents were ordered to evacuate by July 11.

Pope Leo XIV has called on the Society of St Pius X, a group that has been at odds with the Vatican, urging it to abandon its planned episcopal consecrations without a papal mandate and warning of ...

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 ...

The U.S. Defense Department will no longer allow military service members to claim around 180 different religious traditions in their personnel records, leaving only 31 to choose from, and 22 of them ...

Pope Leo XIV has used a visit honoring St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, viewed as the first American saint and patron saint of immigrants, to deliver his latest appeal on behalf of them. The visit carried ...

Attacks by Jews against Christians in the Holy Land could exceed those of 2025, according to a new 2026 report to the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue. The center reported that 155 incidents ...

From 2010 to 2020, the share of the population affiliated with any religion dropped at least 5 percentage points in 35 countries, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. It dropped ...

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 ...

The World Council of Churches and the Christian Conference of Asia have expressed profound dismay at the ongoing violence and the brutal attacks by military and security forces against peaceful ...