Germany's president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has visited the Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) in East Jerusalem and met patients sent there from the Gaza Strip, after meeting his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog in Israel.
German missionary Father Hans Joachim Lohre who was kidnapped in Mali's capital Bamakoin 2022 has been freed by his captors after he disappeared more than one year ago, a church official has said.
The All Africa Conference of Churches has conferred its Human Rights Award on Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town for speaking out against an economy that remains discriminatory in South Africa.
A noise complaint has silenced a church bell that clanged every hour for more than 200 years in Scotland's Beith parish.
Pope Francis has shared lunch with around 1,200 poor, homeless and refugees, from around Rome while also decrying the material, cultural and spiritual poverties that exist in the world as "scandal" in a sermon preceding the meal at the Vatican.
Pope Francis has dismissed the Texas bishop Joseph E. Strickland who had strongly criticised and questioned the Catholic leader for changes he has sought in the church's teaching on social matters.
Germany's President, Frank Steinmeier, has taken aim at Russia as he stressed that the leadership of the Orthodox Church of Russia justifies and supports the war of his country's political leadership in Ukraine.
Pope Francis plans to meet with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, in September at an interreligious meeting in Kazakhstan as many in the world live in hope that the confidante of Vladimir Putin can play a role in getting Moscow to cease its war in Ukraine.
Pastor Rick Warren, considered one of the most influential Evangelical Christians in the United States as leader of the Saddleback Church, has announced his successor when he retires in September.
