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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Several of the 20 Assyrian and ...

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 ...

Such threats are reported in the mass media from North America and Europe. But the problem is spread much further afield. The Vicar-General of the Anglican Church in South Africa, Bishop Stephen ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...