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Indigenous Christians criticise the decision made at denomination’s general assembly last weekFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Presbyterian church has ban…
Gregory Aymond’s letter contradicts promises made to schools and churches when archdiocese declared bankruptcy in May 2020Contradicting promises he made when his archdiocese declared bankruptcy in May 2020, New Orleans’s archbishop, Gregory Aymond, tol…
Lawrence Hecker, 91, charged with first-degree rape two months after Guardian report on 1999 statement in which he admitted ‘overtly sexual acts’A retired Catholic priest from New Orleans who years ago secretly admitted to church leaders that he sexual…
Massachusetts judge finds Theodore McCarrick, charged with molesting boy, 16, in 1974, not competent to stand due to dementiaA Massachusetts judge has dismissed a criminal case charging the former Roman Catholic cardinal Theodore McCarrick with molesti…
Francis’s comments acknowledge divisions in US Catholic church, which has been split between progressives and conservativesPope Francis has rebuked the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the US Catholic church, saying they have replaced faith with…
Melbourne archdiocese loses legal bid to block choirboy’s father from suing for damagesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Catholic church’s bid to block a l…
Lawyers say strategy a ‘matter of continuing concern’ after church succeeds in permanently blocking claim by two Indigenous menGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLawyers for two Indigenous abuse survivors have call…
Number of evangelical chaplains has increased in recent years despite majority of Australian defence force personnel not being religiousGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDefence must recruit secular alternatives t…
Christian family accused of desecrating copy of Qur’an, setting off rampage in FaisalabadHundreds of Muslim men have attacked a Christian community in eastern Pakistan, vandalising several churches and a cemetery and setting scores of houses on fire, a…
The number of abuse claims – 310, spanning several decades – have been kept from public as archdiocese undergoes bankruptcy proceedingsRead the full story: how the New Orleans archbishop hid ‘credibly accused’ abusersMore than 300 people employed by Ro…