A 24-year-old Catholic undergraduate student in a midwife program was barred from placement in a hospital, reportedly due to her pro-life beliefs at the University of Nottingham in England but that decision was overturned last week.

The Archbishop of Canterbury who leads the Anglican church, and charities such as Christian Aid have appealed to the UK government not to cut billions from Britain’s international development budget.

The United States is heading toward having 10 federal executions in 2020, more than double the previous record of four in 1938. “In the last 60 years, before the Trump administration restarted federal executions, there were only four federal executions,” two bishops wrote on the website of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference.

Germany’s main Protestant and Catholic churches have announced plans for a campaign to be launched to encourage Christians to take a clear stand against increasing antisemitism, recognizing it also has Christian roots.

Prejudice around religion, rather than on race or xenophobia, is the “final frontier” for diversity, where individuals are prepared to express negative attitudes, a new study in England and Wales has found.

Pope Francis renewed a pledge by the Catholic Church to uproot the scourge of a notorious sexual abuser after the Vatican released an extensive report on Theodore E. McCarrick former archbishop of Washington.

Locusts which have swarmed into the East and Horn of Africa region are eating their way through pastures and crops spurring the Lutheran World Federation and aid groups it is working with to call for measures to fight this plague.

In a week of brutal inter-ethnic violence and a series of attacks by extremists claiming to act in the name of Islam, the World Council of Churches has condemned the violence and called for confronting the brutal ideologies behind them.

Archeologists have uncovered one of the earliest churches in the Holy Land at the foot of breathtaking waterfalls in the scenic Banias Nature Reserve in Israel’s north.