The Church of England will embrace a new digital audience this holiday after revealing the Archbishop of Canterbury's 2012 Christmas sermon will be translated into a range of tweets. An official press release by the Church of England has also enc…
Pope Benedict, on his visit to Mexico, has charmed the thousands of well wishers who have turned out to greet him at every event. His Holiness has called on all Mexicans to use their faith to fight against the drug violence and poverty that besets th…
Crowds have gathered at St Marks Cathedral in Cairo, for the funeral of the Coptic Pope Shenouda III. Enthroned in 1971, the 117th Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist of the Coptic…
Fears are growing that the unsettled political situation in the Maldives has escalated into religious extremism as priceless non Islamic artefacts have been destroyed. Irreplaceable Buddhist and Hindu statuary was vandalised at the National Museum in…
A 46 year old monk, Tenzin Phuntsog, has set himself alight after distributing leaflets and shouting protest slogans in Chamdo (Changdu). Although this is the 12th self immolation this year this is the first to take place within the Tibetan Autonomou…
The hope that Ramadan may have seen respite to the violence taking place across North Africa proved not to be. It was hoped that the celebration of peace and fasting may stop the atrocities in Libya and Somalia, as well as the continuing unrest in Eg…
The month of Ramadan has started and has brought with it fears that the daily gatherings at Mosques will further ignite the protests in Syria, Libya and other Middle East countries. Those involved in the Arab Spring demonstrations for democracy and p…
A simple request to the former President of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo for a SUV has triggered a full scale scandal within the Catholic Church in the Philippines. The request came from Bishop Juan De Dios Pueblos in 2009as a joint birth…