The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister, two-time U.S. presidential candidate and vigorous civil rights leader, has died at the age of 84, his family said.

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay met with the prime minister of troubled Sudan, Kamil Idris, at ...

Pope Leo XIV is facing a challenge from traditionalist Roman Catholics, a splinter group supporting the traditional Latin ...

Brazilian churches are speaking up as the South American country hits a new record of femicides: four women murdered every ...

Pope Leo XIV has arranged for the delivery of 80 electricity generators, along with medicine and food supplies, to Ukraine. His move came after another massive attack by the Russian army on Ukrainian ...

The World Communion of Reformed Churches has installed Rev. Philip Vinod Peacock from India as its general secretary during a ...

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 ...

Both warring partners have consistently targeted Sudan's Christian community since the beginning of the Sudan war in acts that can be considered war crimes and crimes against humanity. Since April 15, ...

Pope Leo XIV, the 69-year-old Chicago-born cardinal elected as the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, spent many years as a missionary in Peru and is the first North American to hold the papacy. "Peace ...

In a meeting with members of the Diplomatic Corps at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV has warned that human rights and freedoms are under strain as diplomacy gives way to the logic of power and war. He ...

Denzel Washington, Academy Award-winning actor, is in the headlines again, not for his latest film, but for the way he has openly spoken about his Christian faith to the media. Washington, who is an ...

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has removed Metropolitan Nestor of Korsun and Western Europe from his position, ostensibly for being an avid poker player. The church announced ...