If Joe Biden had said, "God is on my side," it is likely hardly anyone would have blinked, but when Donald Trump uttered the words, he drew worldwide attention.
A team from the World Council of Churches has visited Egypt at the invitation of the Coptic Orthodox Church to plan for the 2025 World Conference on Faith and Order
Keir Starmer is the new prime minister of the United Kingdom after his Labour Party won a landslide victory in the July 4 British general election and before his win he said his party owes a huge debt to Christianity.
The new Ecumenical Centre—where the World Council of Churches will spend at least the next three years—is in Kyoto adjacent to the old one but is sparkling and new. Kyoto isn't in Japan—it's in the Green Village in Geneva, Switzerland which has buildings named for cities that hosted major climate talks.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide has called for the liberation of all political prisoners in Cuba, including Christians, three years after mass protests in the country.
The Bible on Elvis Presley's bedroom nightstand the night he died at Graceland in 1977 has sold at auction for $120,000. Hobby Listings said that the Bible received 23 bids before the final gavel came down on the Memorial Day weekend in the United States
South Africa's Catholic bishops have joined other Christians in urging politicians to 'work together' after the African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since the country's first universal suffrage elections 30 years ago.
The head of the World Council of Churches has praised the Barmen Declaration, in which members of Germany's Confessing Church condemned Nazi incursions in church life 90 years after it was signed.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has joined the United Nations human rights chief in strongly condemning an attack by Israeli forces near a camp for displaced persons in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
