A lay preacher from Cambridgeshire has been sentenced to eleven-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted of historic sex offences against three girls on the south coast of England.

A lorry driver caught on camera checking his mobile phone just before a fatal crash in Dumfries and Galloway has been jailed for five years.

A councillor in Oxfordshire has called a job advert for a priest which says the church will only accept a man, "misogynistic".

Avril Lavigne, the pop singer behind the hit 2002 song Sk8er Boi, has released a new single which has gone straight to number five in the Christian songs chart.

Religious people are significantly under-represented in British television, a new report by Ofcom reveals - although a lack of figures means the extent of the issue is unclear.

A post-mortem examination on a Coptic Orthodox monk who had until recently belonged to a monastery where the abbot was killed showed clear signs of poisoning, Egyptian security and medical officials have said.

Police have lifted their cordon on a church caught up in the nerve agent poisonings in Wiltshire earlier this year.

The church in the Middle East needs to be involved in rebuilding towns if refugees are ever to return home, according to a relief charity.

Teams from the charity's hostels have competed for the trophy and footballer Kelly Smith told Premier why she went along. 

Sunday schools and other UK church groups for children are having to close because team members do not pray enough and have not understood the needs of their young people, a new report has claimed.

A congregation in southern Lincolnshire has become the 1,000th to join a pledge to become more environmentally friendly by using things like recycled toilet roll and low energy light bulbs.

A congregation in southern Lincolnshire has become the 1,000th to join a pledge to become more environmentally friendly by using things like recycled toilet roll and low energy light bulbs.

The gospel choir who performed at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding have announced a tour of the UK.

A church in Bristol closed after it suffered bomb damage during the Second World War will be reopened on Sunday, with a vision of making Jesus known to the city's young adults and vulnerable people.