Two US senators have met with Turkey's leader and urged him to help secure the release of an American pastor held in the country for more than 18 months.

Call The Midwife's Tom Brittney has been announced as the new clergyman in ITV hit drama Grantchester.

A state in north-east India has announced that it will begin the legal process to ensure a law banning conversions from one faith to another is repealed.

A church in west Wales has been forced to stop ringing its bells after a number of complaints from locals.

A church leader says each case of someone caught up in the Windrush Scandal being wrongly detained causes "trauma", adding that such incidents show lessons can be learned.

A Mexican pastor has been shot to death in the city of Juarez, nine years after his son was also gunned down.

A retired Anglican priest from Kent has defended his marriage to a man 54 years his junior during an interview on The Jeremy Kyle show.

A much-loved cleaner has wept after students at the University of Bristol raised £1,500 to send him and his wife, a Methodist Church minister, on holiday.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of two more Chilean bishops as part of the fallout from a sex abuse scandal.

A man who carried out a string of burglaries over Christmas - including taking communion wine from a Derby church - is now studying the Bible in prison.

Ministers have been accused by a Church of England bishop of harbouring "hard-hearted", "tight-fisted" and "cruel" policies which are driving more families to use foodbanks.

US Vice President Mike Pence has used scripture from the Bible to reassure Venezuelans that "freedom will prevail" in the country.

The Church of Scotland has banned a church from using its premises after an event was held that promoted fundamentalist doctrines.

Gay Christians are increasingly likely to face discrimination or poor treatment by others in the LGBT community because of their faith.