Clergy are being encouraged to hold "celebratory" services for transgender worshippers wanting to have their transition recognised within the Church of England.

Two nuns have admitted embezzling approximately $500,000 from a Catholic school in California and using it at casinos in Las Vegas, it has been claimed.

Gospel singer Michelle Williams and her fiancé pastor Chad Johnson have ended their engagement after 8 months.

An inquest has been told a man accused of stabbing three people at a church in Birmingham last year took a fatal overdose of prescribed medication in prison.

Italian priests have declared that they will open the parish doors of every church under their control to welcome and look after people expelled migrants.

If it's strapped to the top of the car, poking precariously out of the boot or hand delivered... however you get your Christmas tree home, it should be a priority for parents wanting to provide a joyful Christmas for their children.

Winter night shelters and homelessness charities say they have been overwhelmed with volunteers this Christmas.

The Catholic Church has beatified 19 monks, nuns and others killed during Algeria's civil war in the 1990s.

Christians across the UK were urged to come together in praying for Brexit on Monday - the same day it emerged Theresa May is calling off a vote on her withdrawal deal. It had been expected Mrs May would suffer a heavy defeat.

Work to clear an estimated 6,500 landmines and booby traps from a stretch of the Jordan River where some people believe Jesus was baptised has reached a "pivotal point", it has been claimed.

The Chinese police have detained one of the country's most prominent Protestant pastors along with more than 100 congregation members of his house-church.

A Catholic nun has revealed she has spent more than 650 days tweeting daily prayers to the US president.

Iranian authorities detained more than 100 Christians last week and ordered them to have no contact with religious groups such as house churches.

St Boniface in Woodgreen village are stepping in to provide drinks for the village while the local pub is closed.