Pope Leo XIV has arranged for the delivery of 80 electricity generators, along with medicine and food supplies, to Ukraine. His move came after another massive attack by the Russian army on Ukrainian cities, and Bishop Jan Sobilo, Auxiliary Bishop of the Kharkiv–Zaporizhzhia Diocese, spoke about the difficulties and the daily reality of life under shelling.
Pope Leo XIV is facing a challenge from traditionalist Roman Catholics, a splinter group supporting the traditional Latin Mass, which has announced plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent.
Brazilian churches are speaking up as the South American country hits a new record of femicides: four women murdered every day, the World Council of Churches reports.
The World Communion of Reformed Churches has installed Rev. Philip Vinod Peacock from India as its general secretary during a ceremony held at the Reformed Church in Hannover, Germany
Bishop Sarah Mullally has become the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, at her Confirmation of Election at St Paul's Cathedral, and she is the first woman to hold the office in the 1,400-year history of the Church of England.
World Council of Churches' general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has expressed "deep alarm" over escalating violence in areas to which U.S. federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents have been deployed, especially in Minneapolis.
The Roman Catholic share of the population in several Latin American countries has shrunk over the last 10 years, while a growing percentage of adults in the region are religiously unaffiliated, describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular."
Around 388 million Christians around the world face some form of intense persecution or discrimination for following Jesus Christ, the 2026 World Watch List, recently released by Open Doors U.S. has found.
For decades, church attendance and nominal adherence to Christianity have been declining in England and Wales, and it has been assumed that this decline would continue, says Paul Williams, CEO of the Bible Society. Yet, church attendance has risen by 50 percent over the last six years, busting the myth of church decline as the findings show in The Quiet Revival, a survey commissioned by Bible Society and conducted by YouGov.
