The Lutheran World Federation has elected 45-yeard-old Estonian theologian Rev. Anne Burghardt as its next General Secretary and she is the first woman and Central East European to head the 77-million strong communion of Lutherans.
Pope Francis has called for dignified working conditions and support for workers on the margins of the labor market still affected by COVID-19 pandemic losses when he spoke at the International Labor Organization summit.
The establishment narrowly headed off a takeover attempt by a hard-right movement at this week's Southern Baptist convention in Nashville. Ed Litton, a moderate pastor from Alabama, won the crucial three-way contest in the presidential election with the potential to reshape the future of the country's largest Protestant denomination.
Presidents Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin were told they have a special responsibility for reducing tensions and achieving a stable and relationship, to improve rather than diminish the prospects of effective global cooperation to address complex world crises.
TB Joshua the televangelist and philanthropist did not complete his secondary education but grew a massive following as a preacher, advancing Pentecostalism in Africa and many people view his death at the age of 57 as unexpected early.
When Germany's most prominent Catholic leader offered his resignation to Pope Francis, citing his role in the "catastrophe of sexual abuse by church officials," he surprised many people
Brewers are producing beer for the first time in 200 years at a historic Catholic abbey in Belgium.
A court in Hong Kong has sentenced Catholic media mogul and pro-free expression activist Jimmy Lai to a second jail term, this one for14 months, for participating in an unauthorized assembly in 2019.
A significant 15% of Americans agree with the QAnon allegation that "the government, media, and financial worlds in the United States are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation."
