A driver, said to be a Saudi who hates Islam, rammed a car into shoppers at the busy German Christmas market on Dec. 20, killing at least five people and injuring 200. One of those killed was a ...

Medically assisted dying – also known as voluntary euthanasia – accounted for 4.7 percent of deaths in Canada in 2023, new government data shows. The country's fifth annual report since ...

In the United States, the political utterances of some evangelical leaders can create the impression that their churches are hotbeds of activism and engagment, but that may not be the case.

Pope Francis has called on the Syrian rebels who toppled President Bashar al-Assad's regime to stabilzse the country, and govern to promote national unity, as the World Council of Churches ...

If implemented the Russian move introduced as a draft law on Oct. 30, would hit the religious communities hard. Following the Russian Orthodox Church hierarchy, Catholic bishops are also opposing ...

During a World Council of Churches prayer on Dec. 2, those gathered commemorated World AIDS Day, which was observed the day before as many churches worldwide have long supported carriers of HIV ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has visited Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral live on TV, allowing the public to see inside the building since much of it was destroyed or damaged in a huge fire in 2019.

"Last year, as a means of standing in solidarity with the multitudes suffering from the newly erupted war," said the church leaders in a Nov. 22 statement, "We, the Patriarchs and Heads of the ...

Jailed pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai has dismissed as "impossible" the idea that the Chinese government could be overthrown during testimony in his Hong Kong national security trial on Nov. 28 ...

Sixty-nine Episcopal parishes have closed.