The biggest shake-up of Britain's prison system since the Victorian era was at the heart of the Queen's Speech on Wednesday, including plans for a Counter-Extremism Bill. 

A Christian religious freedom charity has said it is a "real answer to prayer" that one of the 219 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls has been found alive.

The biggest shake-up of Britain's prison system since the Victorian era was at the heart of the Queen's Speech on Wednesday, including plans for a Counter-Extremism Bill. 

A former bell ringer at Worcester Cathedral has lost his High Court ruling in which he claimed church leaders were wrong to remove him from the Guild of Bell-Ringers.

The wife of an Vietnamese Lutheran pastor serving an eleven-year prison sentence says the extent of harassment experienced by her family at the hands of officials is becoming "intolerable".

A gambling advert which poked fun at the death of Jesus has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

Mexico's president says they will legalise same-sex marriage in the country. 

The Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin will not be testifying during the Vati-leaks scandal that has embroiled the heart of Catholicism in recent months. 

The Church of Scotland is thinking about conducting online baptisms to combat a decline in membership. 

The existence of homelessness in the UK is an "obscenity" which must be tackled, the new head of the Church of Scotland, the Rev Dr Russell Barr has said.

Christians are being encouraged to pray for the police as a new report suggests a third of officers are attacked at least once a month.

An international Catholic charity says that more humanitarian aid needs to be given to local partners on the ground rather than governments or big organisations. 

A Christian family in Pakistan has said one of their daughters has been kidnapped in broad daylight and forced to marry a Muslim man.

A vicar is set to appear on the new season on Celebrity MasterChef.