The first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV asserts that artificial intelligence is not inherently immoral, but that its adoption should be slowed to enable the development of moral guardrails and it gleaned strong approval from ecumenical groups.
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Pentecost with a call to the Holy Spirit to save humanity from "the evil of war" and urged the faithful to see themselves as active bearers of the Gospel rather than as passive guardians of it.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has expressed deep concern over the suffering caused by the escalating Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he would raise concerns about jailed Catholic media tycoon and Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai and detained Chinese pastor Jin Mingri during his talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Religious freedom in India is on a "downward trajectory," says a U.S. commission that has heard renewed warnings about discrimination, arbitrary detention and violence directed against Christians and other religious minorities.
The chair of the Ukrainian Council of Churches says that what unites all his country's Christian communities and other religious organizations, is "the shared longing for an end to the war, and a commitment to prayer for peace."
European leaders have gathered in Yerevan for the first European Union-Armenia Summit, as a human rights group published a list of known political prisoners in Armenia belonging to a church group.
A proposed UK law to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales ran out of time to become law, almost 17 months after Members of Parliament first voted in favor of it.
Religious switching within Christianity has affected the two largest subgroups – Catholicism and Protestantism – differently, with Catholics tending to lose more than Protestants, Pew Research reports.
