The Church of England has installed Sarah Mullally as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to take on the role in the nearly 1,500-year history of the church, becoming the de facto head ...

Churches are claiming a moral victory after members of the Scottish Parliament rejected the chance to make Scotland the first ...

Lebanon's Foreign Minister has appealed to the Holy See for diplomatic support to preserve the Christian presence in border ...

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 ...

The Vatican's Bambino Gesù Hospital is considered the leading paediatric hospital in Europe and the 6th best in the world, according to the U.S. magazine Newsweek's 2026 World's Best Hospitals ranking ...

Oikocredit, a global economic justice and economic development tool conceived at the World Council of Churches, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The WCC's general secretary, Rev. Jerry Pillay, ...

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 ...

Pope Leo IV urged humanity at his first Angelus greeting of 2026, to "build a year of peace, by disarming our hearts and refraining from every form of violence" after closing last year out condemning ...

Pope Leo XIV has sent a message to the 8th Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held in Kazakhstan, and he invited the faithful of all religions to help build a future of peace, ...

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 ...

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has commemorated the 160th anniversary of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan with special greetings. On April 23, Pillay preached during a ...

People in Gaza are facing starvation, and more Jewish groups have joined global religious voices in stepped-up calls for immediate aid and respect for human life as Israeli hoztages stay captured and ...