Notre Dame Cathedral, one of the most cherished symbols of French heritage and Christian devotion, is set to reopen its doors after a five-year restoration following the devastating fire that engulfed it on 15 April 2019.
Haitian bishops are appealing for peace after months of violence and a sharp deterioration in the situation as gangs deepen their control of the capital Port-au-Prince.
Nigeria's oldest Catholic priest, Monsignor Thomas Oleghe, has passed away at the age of 104.
As Christmas approaches, Friends of the Holy Land is asking Christians to turn their minds to the city of Bethlehem, where the Christmas story first began, and the wider region as conflict continues.
The Australian government's controversial mis- and disinformation bill has been abandoned after fierce opposition from civil liberty groups, human rights advocates, and faith groups saw it fail to attract the required support from other political parties to make it through the nation's upper house.
Twenty people have died in the past two weeks as ethnoreligious violence resurges in India's northeastern state of Manipur, where Christians and Hindus remain locked in a devastating conflict that has displaced more than 60,000 people since May 2023.
Despite 10 Catholic bishops in China in being held detention, "disappeared" or forced from their positions, the government-installed bishop of Shanghai at a conference this month spoke only on President Xi Jinping's "Sinicization" of religion, without mentioning hoped-for pastoral plans.
Critics of abortion and trans ideology could be silenced in Australia after parliamentarians backed a proposed law to give the country's media authority more powers, vexing the Australian Christian Lobby.
A multi-vehicle accident near the coastal town of Badagry, 70 kilometres from Lagos, Nigeria turned fatal, claiming the life of a Youth With A Mission (YWAM) staff while several others were rushed to nearby hospitals with various injuries.
Nicaraguan media in exile report that Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera, president of the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference, has been banished to Guatemala. He is the third bishop to be expelled by Daniel Ortega's regime in the past year.
Expressing alarm over an increase in false blasphemy accusations in Pakistan, the UN Human Rights Committee last week urged repeal or amending of the country's harsh blasphemy laws.
Only weeks after the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization concluded in Incheon, South Korea, the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is about to announce plans to hold its next General Assembly in Seoul from Oct. 27-31, 2025.
Despite their being hailed by some as a victory for indigenous rights, a leading international charity has warned that new reforms to Mexican law that will allow indigenous communities to enforce local customs and traditions instead risk escalating the persecution of Christians.
