Christian groups on Monday (June 30) called on Italy to broaden religious freedoms to protect a wider range of church ...

It was as if the U.N. unanimously took in Communist China and all the new African and Asian nations in a single morning session. For the World Council of Churches is roughly an ecclesiastical ...

The Nigerian Inter-Religious Council has urged organisers of the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest to halt the nationwide demonstration, lamenting that lives and properties are being lost during ...

Faith communities have long offered sanctuary to refugees in their journey to safety, as first responders meeting protection or service delivery needs and supporting communities to find solutions such ...

The council is expected to approve in principle procedures for suppressing small sees and gradually dividing up such cumbersome jurisdictions as Mexico City (the world’s largest diocese, with ...

(RNS) — In August, the World Methodist Council, an umbrella group of Methodist denominations, meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, elected the Rev. Debra Wallace-Padgett president of the council.

To Sanctify the World. By George Weigel. Basic Books; 368 pages; $32 and £25. F or many historians of faith, it was the greatest religious gathering of the 20th century, setting a new course for ...

The Government of the Republic of Moldova, Religions for Peace, and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, hosted a delegation of leaders of the world’s diverse faith traditions, the Multi-Religious Council of ...