World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay is deeply aggrieved by the desecration of a statue of Jesus on ...

The World Council of Churches and the Christian Conference of Asia have expressed profound dismay at the ongoing violence and ...

Pope Leo XIV says that he is not a politician and that he will "continue to speak strongly against war, seeking to promote ...

Chinese authorities are increasingly putting pressure on Christian leaders who do not comply with state control. One instance ...

Pope Leo XIV led the Catholic faithful at the 2026 Good Friday Way of the Cross by carrying the Cross throughout the Colosseum in Rome. Leo became the second pope to carry the Cross for the entire Via ...

Pope Leo XIV is facing a challenge from traditionalist Roman Catholics, a splinter group supporting the traditional Latin Mass, which has announced plans to consecrate new bishops without papal ...

Churches are claiming a moral victory after members of the Scottish Parliament rejected the chance to make Scotland the first part of the UK to legalise assisted dying. The proposals, tabled by ...

The Roman Catholic share of the population in several Latin American countries has shrunk over the last 10 years, while a growing percentage of adults in the region are religiously unaffiliated, ...

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay met with the prime minister of troubled Sudan, Kamil Idris, at the council's office in Geneva, delivering a message calling for justice, ...

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 ...

The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya (EAK) has joined other religious leaders, including the Pentecostal Voice of Kenya (PVK), in rejecting the Religious Organisations Bill, 2024, proposed by a former ...

In his first "urbi et orbi" Easter Sunday address, Pope Leo XIV used the words of his predecessor and warned of the globalization of indifference to growing conflicts, urging those fighting to lay ...