Reports that the death toll from a recent flare-up in violence across northern Nigeria has exceeded 200 prompted a fresh warning at the weekend of a "strategy" to drive out Christians.

Former President of Ireland Mary McAleese has branded the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality "evil" and claimed it is driving people towards ending their own lives.

A collection of villages built by the first Christian missionaries and communities in Japan has received a special status from an international body which protects historic places.

The new President of the Methodist Conference officially assumed the position during a meeting of the Methodist Church's governing body in Nottingham at the weekend.

Former cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken, who served time in jail, said he is humbled and delighted to have been made a deacon.

The President of The Philippines has dismissed a call from him to issue a public apology for calling God "stupid".

A gunman (pictured below) who killed 26 people in a mass shooting at a Texas church died from a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, a post-mortem has confirmed.

Plans by Ed Sheeran to build a Saxon-style wedding chapel in the garden of his Suffolk home have been rejected by his local council.

Former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star Matt Cappotelli "went home to be with Jesus" after losing a year-long battle with cancer at the age of 38, his wife his said.

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has announced that it will begin the legal process to ensure a law banning conversions from one faith to another is repealed.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.