World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has expressed deep concern over the suffering caused by the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he would raise concerns about jailed Catholic media tycoon and Hong Kong pro-democracy ...

The chair of the Ukrainian Council of Churches says that what unites all his country's Christian communities and other ...

Religious freedom in India is on a "downward trajectory," says a U.S. commission that has heard renewed warnings about ...

Around 388 million Christians around the world face some form of intense persecution or discrimination for following Jesus Christ, the 2026 World Watch List, recently released by Open Doors U.S. has ...

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 proposed UK law to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales ran out of time to become law, almost 17 months after Members of Parliament first voted in favor of it. The bill stalled on April 24 ...

Lebanon's Foreign Minister has appealed to the Holy See for diplomatic support to preserve the Christian presence in border villages near Israel in the south of the country as the country faces ...

The World Council of Churches has praised reforms proposed by the United Nations, but notes that more needs to be done, including reform of the Security Council, which is currently dominated by the ...

Some lawmakers in the United Kingdom have demanded that prayers in Parliament be scrapped, saying the tradition has no place in the 21st century. The government is facing calls to abolish prayers at ...

The general secretary of the World Council of Churches has warned at the church service in the Cuban capital that reliance on war, violence, and military force as instruments of peace continues to ...

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 ...