Pope Leo XIV and World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay have expressed sorrow and horror over an ...

People in Gaza are facing starvation, and more Jewish groups have joined global religious voices in stepped-up calls for ...

The World Council of Churches' general secretary, Rev. Jerry Pillay, recently called for unity in the church community in ...

ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has claimed responsibility for a shocking assault on churchgoers at a Catholic ...

A Hindu-majority village in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh has banned a Christian family from living there after they ...

Presidents, prime ministers, and cardinals were among those bidding a final farewell to Pope Francis, a Catholic Church leader described as "a pope among the people. " His death drew worldwide ...

Leaders of the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Druze faiths in Haifa, recently called for coexistence in the northern Israeli city amid the tensions sparked by the war in Gaza.

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 ...

Two of the top church leaders in the Holy Land have toured the Christian Palestinian town of Taybeh in the West Bank, the scene of several attacks by militant settlers in recent weeks, and charge ...

Following the lethal bombing of the St. Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries in the Holy Land has condemned the violence and called for the protection of ...

Some lawmakers in the United Kingdom have demanded that prayers in Parliament be scrapped, saying the tradition has no place in the 21st century.

In many of the world's countries, 20 percent or more of all adults have left the religious group in which they were raised, a recent Pew Research survey has found.