A prominent and retired Church of England bishop who was once a potential future Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion is now in the Catholic Church
Archbishop Desmond Tutu one of South Africa's most famous persons turned 90 with a Eucharist service celebration at Cape Town's St. George's Cathedral on Oct. 7 with an outpouring of love from around the world.
Pope Francis has expressed "shame" for himself and the Roman Catholic Church at the scale of child sexual abuse within France involving hundreds of thousands of victims.
The Swiss public has voted overwhelmingly in support of same-sex marriage in a national referendum, but the Swiss Evangelical Alliance said after the poll that "the freedom of churches must be protected" and that the vote went too far.
Religion-related terrorism has been declining but government restrictions on religious beliefs remain at high levels around the world, says a new report from the Pew Research Center.
Recent times stirred some tense polarization in the United States. Yet there was no mass exodus from evangelicalism by white evangelicals who disliked Donald Trump nor by evangelicals of color during the four years of his presidency, despite some believing they might take place new research has found.
The security forces of the Myanmar junta forces have recently occupied churches and destroyed food aid supplies for refugees in the west of the country during clashes with ethnic armed forces and militias that oppose the Feb. 1 putsch.
As a teenager growing up in communist East Germany in the 1980s, Ellen Ueberschär learned of freedom of speech in her church parish and she believes that fundamental digital rights will not prevail on their own or through voluntary commitments by corporations.
One of the planet's biggest arms trade fair mid-September in London will assemble more than 1,600 companies that develop, make, and sell war weaponry, but it has drawn flak from UK Catholic bishops, as well as other Christian and activist groups. The fair comes days after the commemoration of 911, when people remember the terrorist attacks planned from Afghanistan onto targets in the northeast of the United States and the wars it unleashed in a huge area of the Middle East, including Iraq.
