A US couple who lost their life-size Nativity set in a fire outside their home have said "the devil can't ruin Christmas" for them.

A former-slave from the United States who was blinded in one eye as a child at the hands of a slavemaster could be made a saint.

Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are urging ruling party and opposition figures to return to the negotiating table to try and solve a political crisis which sparked deadly clashes earlier this week.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has used the word genocide to describe the treatment of suppressed Christians around the world in his Christmas message to churches.

The growing threat of religious persecution has been branded "evil" by the Prince of Wales who has compared the dangers facing minority faith groups across the world with the "dark days of the 1930s".

Churches across the country are being urged by a Christian expert on radicalisation to stay vigilant during the Christmas period against the threat of terrorism, days after a deadly terror attack outside a church in Berlin.

A Christmas tree decoration which shows baby Jesus with two mothers has been labelled blasphemous by a campaign group.

A van, thought to be packed with gas canisters, has crashed into the headquarters of a Christian lobby group in Australia.

A Christian pro-life group has said a report into one of Britain's biggest abortion providers leaves it "worried and horrified".

The Pope has commuted the prison sentence of a Spanish priest convicted in July of disclosing Vatican information and said that he should be freed.

A priest has been robbed at gunpoint at his church on Merseyside.

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