Christian missionary Kevin Rideout has been released to U.S. custody after more than nine months of captivity following his ...

There has only been one war in which atomic bombs have been dropped. That was at the end of the Second World War II when on ...

The Anglican Bishop of Nigeria's Egba Diocese, Dr. Emmanuel Oludaisi Adekunle, is concerned over the worsening security ...

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 ...

A delegation from the World Council of Churches has made a solidarity visit to Ukraine, which it said is "walking in hope and praying with churches and communities for an end to the war," started by ...

Authorities in Bosnia say they are investigating the desecration of a Virgin Mary statue and a shrine damaged by fire overnight in a southern Bosnian village, a popular destination for Roman Catholic ...

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 ...

(Photo: Courtesy World Council of Churches)Keynote speakers at the NIFEA Consultation, August 2025 in South Korea. Artificial intelligence is reshaping economies and societies worldwide, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

An ecumenical delegation led by World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has met with the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as well as officials from the Zimbabwe ...

As AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly viewed as a means of allowing killing at unprecedented speed and scale, the World Council of Churches has signed a statement that calls on tech companies and ...