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 Good Friday Way of the Cross by carrying the Cross throughout the Colosseum in ...

In his first "urbi et orbi" Easter Sunday address, Pope Leo XIV used the words of his predecessor and warned of the ...

A group of 25,000 Christians in Islamabad, Pakistan, are being asked suddenly to leave their homes by the nation's Islamic authorities, some years after a teenage Christian had been falsely accused ...

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 ...

For decades, church attendance and nominal adherence to Christianity have been declining in England and Wales, and it has been assumed that this decline would continue, says Paul Williams, CEO of the ...

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 ...

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 World Council of Churches head, Rev. Jerry Pillay, has paid a courtesy visit to the South Korean president Lee Jae-myung in Seoul, where the two agreed to work for peace and improving relations in ...

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 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 ...