Pope Francis has met members of the World Jewish Congress at the Vatican, telling them that migrants have enriched Europe and need to be integrated into society
Pope Francis will make history when he attends ceremonies in Sweden at the end of October to start the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
South Africa has barred controversial U.S. pastor Steven Anderson from visiting the county after civil society groups campaigned against homophobic remarks he had made.
The United States has exceeded its Syrian refugee admission target for 2016 by 15 percent, with 11,491 resettled in the country as of Sept 12 with only a minute percentage of them being Christians.
For Pentecostals on both sides of the Atlantic this has been a busy week. Pope Francis met with a group of Italian Pentecostal pastors, telling them that unity is achieved by walking patiently together. In São Paulo, Brazil, Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches spoke about climate change during the opening day of the 24th Pentecostal World Conference.
Christian and Jewish groups in Turkey are growing more fearful of Islamic extremism with increasing terror attacks and the government's state of emergency following a failed coup attempt, representatives of the minority communities say.
Zambia's Catholic bishops and the country's main umbrella for Protestant churches have joined forces to vehemently oppose the establishment of a government ministry of religious affairs.
Pope Francis has warned that when journalism is based on rumors or on stoking public fear, it can become a "form of terrorism" and a "weapon of destruction" of both people and nations in an address to Italian media professionals.
Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Christian and Buddhist religious leaders met this week in Assisi to discuss peace, while across the ocean in New York City global political leaders assembled at the United Nations also focused on a troubled world.
One German Jewish leader has called the result in the weekend election in Berlin a "Nazi renaissance," as Germany's newest right-populist party, Alternative for Germany, or AfD, gained seats for the first time in the state parliament.
