A former scout leader at a Catholic home for boys in Bedfordshire branded the "orphanage from hell" has been jailed for three and a half years for historic abuse against children.

The third chairwoman to resign from the national child abuse inquiry investigating the Church of England, among other institutions, was given an £80,000 pay-off, backed by the government.

Police are investigating a terror threat against a Christian secondary school in Yorkshire. 

A bishop in China has been ordained without the permission of Pope Francis and the Vatican in Rome. 

The Republican Vice-Presidential candidate and Christian Mike Pence has asked Americans to forgive Donald Trump, after a video emerged of him making degrading and predatory comments about women.

The Australian Christian Lobby has said ordinary Australians are "being shut out" of the decision of whether to legalise same-sex marriage in the country.

The Catholic Church in the Philippines is not sure how to deal with vigilante drug killings taking place in the country, according to religious leaders. 

The Big Church Switch, a Tearfund and Christian Aid initiative, has won the energy category in the PEA Awards (People, Environment, Achievement). 

A judge within the Diocese of Carlisle has banned a family from etching a Freemason symbol onto a grave in one of its churchyards.

London School of Theology (LST) has appointed Methodist minister Revd Calvin Samuel as its new principal.

Survivors of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti put on their Sunday best and picked their way through the debris to pray in ruined churches over the weekend. 

Christians are being encouraged to pray for both candidates in the US election race as the vote looms closer and the personal attacks go deeper. 

More than 90 church leaders have come together to pray for prisoners across the country. 

The President of Colombia has reiterated his commitment to peace during a visit to a church caught up in the country's bloody 50 year war.