Category: Religion

Egypt’s president is inaugurating a new cathedral for the Coptic Orthodox Church and one of the region’s largest mosques. Sunday’s opening ceremony is a highly symbolic gesture at a time when Islamic militants are increasingly targeting the country’s minority Christians.Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, a general-turned-president, has made sectarian harmony a cornerstone of his rule, fighting Islamic militancy […]

Italian police are investigating the death of a paedophile pastor and they suspect that the father of his victims is behind the murder. According to The Mirror, Guiseppe Matarazzo was gunned down a month after he was released from prison. He spent 11 years and six months behind bars for sexually abusing two young sisters. One of […]

A Texas non-profit has been granted permission from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) to launch a brand-new airline which will cater exclusively to Christian missionaries. “Judah 1” plans to operate out of North Texas Regional Airport (NTRA) and will retail tickets to mission groups and individuals who are seeking transport to remote destinations for missions and evangelism work. […]

Iraqi Christians quietly celebrated Christmas on Tuesday amid improved security, more than a year after the country declared victory over Islamic State militants who threatened to end their 2,000-year history in Iraq. Christianity in Iraq dates back to the first century of the Christian era, when the apostles Thomas and Thaddeus are believed to have […]

By Lorna Shaddick, Sky News reporter “It was like looking at the blueprint to my soul,” is how Hannah Barr describes her decision to become a vicar. At just 26 years old, and a proud feminist, she is combining her training at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford with a doctorate on the theology of sexual consent. […]

Priests and rabbis pray at holy sites for worshippers unable to make pilgrimage to ancient city. A growing movement of organisations in Jerusalem are offering proxy prayer services to Christians and Jews willing to pay to have their divine requests delivered in the holy city. For millennia, pilgrims have longed to connect with God on […]

A court in eastern France on Wednesday sentenced a Buddhist monk originally from Bhutan to 12 years in prison over a series of rapes at a communal living compound, including minors. Karma Tshojay, 56, was found guilty after four women, disciples at the “Temple of 1 000 Buddhas” or their children, accused him of multiple […]

Joshua Harris, one of the most prominent leaders of the evangelical purity movement, has changed his mind on the topic, and asked his publisher to stop printing his 1997 book, “I Kissed Dating Goodbye.” Harris also filmed a documentary in which he confronts the people whose sexuality, body image, and relationships were negatively affected by […]

A church where many actors from Shakespeare’s acting company are believed to be buried is just one of the recipients of Christmas grants from the National Churches Trust. The present day St Leonard’s, Shoreditch, London sits on the site of an earlier medieval church that is believed to be the final resting place for Richard […]

Brazilian prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a famous “spiritual healer,” Joao Teixeira de Faria, who stands accused by hundreds of women of sexual abuse under the pretext of treating them, officials told AFP on Friday. “Yes, (the warrant) has been decreed,” said a spokesman for the security secretariat in the state of Goias, where […]