Egyptian police have arrested nine Copts in an apparent attempt to persuade a priest to drop charges against a mob involved in vandalizing a church and other properties belonging to Christians.
The Church of England has issued guidance instructing clergy to tell parishioners that information divulged about sex abuse during confession will have to be reported to the police.
A Catholic bishop in Ireland has suggested that those who voted in favor of repealing the ban on abortion should go to confession if they want to continue receiving Holy Communion.
Two pastors were arrested in China's Jiangsu province last week for allegedly operating a school without proper documents.
Suspected Fulani herdsmen have carried out an attack on a Catholic minor seminary in Nigeria's "Middle Belt" region, injuring the priests and some of the students.
A pro-life group that campaigned to preserve Ireland's Eight Amendment has described the landslide vote to repeal the measure that bans abortions in the country as a "tragedy of historic proportions."
Bishops in the Church of England have launched an initiative to encourage transgender individuals to apply for leadership roles in their local churches.
A Catholic media outlet in China's Hebei province was reportedly ordered to stop reporting about the Month of Mary pilgrimages that are taking place across the country.
Catholic church officials in Chile have suspended 14 priests for "improper conduct," as Pope Francis prepares to meet with a second group of sex abuse victims in Rome.
The police and crime commissioner (PCC) in Surrey, England has drawn criticism from a secularist group for allowing the distribution of 1,000 Bibles from Gideons International.
An evangelical church in Cuba has confirmed that 20 of its members were among those who perished in a plane crash near Havana last Friday.
ChatGPT receives approximately 70 million religion-related requests every week, with questions about Islam accounting for the largest share, followed by Christianity, according to a recent analysis released by OpenAI, the developer of the artificial intelligence chatbot.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to review a religious freedom dispute involving an Orthodox Jewish man in Ohio who alleges that local officials violated his constitutional rights by requiring a permit for prayer gatherings at his residence. Daniel Grand filed a lawsuit against the City of University Heights after officials sought to prevent him from holding religious meetings at home.
The Episcopal Church continued to experience declining membership in 2025, with its total number of members falling by nearly half a million over the past decade, according to newly released denominational statistics. An analysis of the denomination’s 2025 Parochial Report showed that membership stood at approximately 1.425 million in 2025, compared with 1.917 million in 2015.
Christian hip-hop artist Hulvey canceled a sold-out concert in Amsterdam just an hour before he was scheduled to perform, citing sexually explicit images and objects displayed inside the venue that he said were inappropriate for his audience, particularly young children. The rapper said he made the decision after learning that venue officials would not fully cover the graphic material, despite requests from his team.
Myanmar’s military has been accused of violating international humanitarian law following separate attacks that destroyed two churches in the predominantly Christian regions of Chin and Kachin states earlier this month. According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), two military aircraft departing from an air base in Magway carried out airstrikes on the town of Mindat in southern Chin State at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 9.