A new initiative unveiled this week by the pope to raise awareness of the plight facing migrants around the world has been welcomed by the Church of England.

Worship leader and Grammy award winner Matt Redman has urged Christians not to think those on church stages have their lives all together as he opens up on his personal struggles.

The first same-sex church wedding in the UK has taken place in Edinburgh.

Church of England school pupils are lagging behind students in Jewish and Muslim classrooms when it comes to the exams they take when they're aged six and seven, new government statistics reveal.

A man who sexually groomed and abused a teenage girl at a church in south east London has been sentenced to ten years in prison.

A man has been arrested by Libyan authorities investigating the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians more than two and a half years ago.

A chaplain from the UK who was selected with her colleague to go and help out at the Invictus games says the athletes there, who are often injured from war conflict or accidents, have overcome huge obstacles to be able to compete and often talk to the chaplains about them.

A Christian bioethics lecturer has told Premier he is "disturbed" by the DNA surgery Chinese researchers have performed on human embryos to remove a disease using a technique they claim has never been used.

A Christian solicitor said job discrimination against disabled people is a big issue that the Church should lead the way in getting rid of.

Pastor Evan Mawarire was back in court on Thursday just days after being released by authorities who accused him of subverting the government.

A pastor in Florida has vowed to use a sledgehammer to knock down a Satanic monument if plans for its display during the Christmas season aren't averted.

An American pastor said it was divine intervention from God that his church's youth group leader discovered a baby who was abandoned on the side of a motorway.

A newly-released Catholic priest who spent a year in captivity at the hands of Islamic State has met with the prime minister of India.

Gavin Ashenden, a former chaplain to the Queen and an outspoken critic of the Church of England, has been named as a missionary bishop to the United Kingdom and Europe.