CHRISTIANITY

Christ's birthplace at centre of appeal to Unesco for world heritage site and £8m in funding for much-needed repairs.

Thousands of Iraqi Christians were forced to flee their homeland after a series of attacks targeting them.

Internet users who prefer their smut with a side of guilt are in luck as fresh reports suggest an unnamed "entrepreneur" has purchased the Vatican.xxx web site domain.

Tests show religious icon alleged to be burial shroud of Christ 'could not have been faked by medieval science'.

According to the people who met him recently, the pontiff looked weaker than ever.

A church billboard which shows a shocked Virgin Mary holding a positive pregnancy test has caused controversy in New Zealand.

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The severely injured model has taken her first steps after near fatal propeller accident

Johnny Depp has come under fire for featuring on British band Bluebird's latest track, Jesus Stag Night Club.

The embattled preacher has stepped down following a string of damaging allegations of sexual abuse

Dr Rowan Williams has linked the disorder spread cross England to the "massive economic hopelessness" and the prospect of record levels of youth unemployment.

The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church in Kentucky has allegedly voted to deny interracial couple from becoming members

A breakaway Amish cult in Ohio headed by leader Samuel Mullet terrorised the local Amish population by forcibly cutting the hair of men and women in night-time raids.

The Vatican is taking legal action against Italian clothing company Benetton over the use of an ad picture showing Pope Benedict XVI kissing a leading imam as part of a new global campaign.

Italian fashion label Benetton has withdrawn a picture showing the Pope kissing a leading imam from its new advertising campaign after the Vatican issued a fierce condemnation.

Vatican insiders revealed that Pope Benedict XVI is suffering from arthritis, a degenerative disease of the joints, which makes it difficult for him to walk.

A Vatican newspaper has touted Tintin as "a Catholic hero".

Prince under strict instructions from Gila Bend mayor not to mess around with the town’s young women

Life for All, a Lahore-based activist group, has published case studies of all those accused under the blasphemy law in Pakistan's Punjab province.

Occupy protesters camping outside St Paul's Cathedral may stay for good, say the anti-capitalists pitched there.

The Church of England is threatening to withdraw millions of pounds invested in Internet service providers unless they take action to curb online pornography.

Canon Dr Giles Fraser, the chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, has resigned from his post at the church.

Father Laurence Soper, under investigation for child abuse, has jumped bail and may have fled to Italy, say police.

With India's population greater than that of the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh combined, the Roman Catholic church has urged the devout to increase the numbers of Christians in the country.

Pope Benedict XVI could end up at the Hague after human rights lawyers and victims of clergy sexual abuse filed a complaint Tuesday calling for the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate and prosecute the catholic cleric along with three other top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity and covering up and condoning the rape and sexual assault of children by priests.

The Anglican Church is to set approve controversial guidelines allowing openly homosexual clergy to become bishops

BBC 2 will air 'Choosing to Die' at 9pm on Monday evening sparking widespread condemnation from officials and licence payers. The film 'Choosing to Die' is a documentary about Peter Swedley, a motor neurone suffer who is chosen to take his own life in Switzerland. The film shows the last breath of Peter Swedley before he passes away. The film is designed to highlight the suffering of people with terminal disease and to illustrate the tremendous heart break and strain such diseases pl...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has launched a fierce criticism of the coalition government's education and health reforms as well as questioning whether the coalition government has a mandate to govern. The severity of the attack on the government took Prime Minster David Cameron and other senior ministers by surprise, with last summer's Conservative-Lib Dem coalition agreement coming under severe public scrutiny.