
Church groups settle discrimination case against Scotland's largest grant-making trust
Scotland's largest grant-making trust has admitted unlawful discrimination against two church groups after cancelling their bookings.

Scotland's largest grant-making trust has admitted unlawful discrimination against two church groups after cancelling their bookings.

The Church of England's Bishop in Europe has blamed a failure of dialogue between the UK Government and the European Union for the English Channel migrant crisis.

The Biden administration’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing sends “a strong and unequivocal message” to the Chinese government that its persecution of religious minorities will not be tolerated.

Among the Nobel laureates, politicians and professors honored by the BBC as among the 100 most influential and inspiring women of the year is a Catholic nun from rural Myanmar.

Pope Francis has intervened in the decades-long dispute.

Mexico’s bishops expressed disappointment with their government’s willingness to go along with a plan known as Remain in Mexico, in which people seeking asylum in the United States wait in dangerous border cities.

Israel on Tuesday announced the completion of its new 40-mile-long concrete security barrier along the Gaza border designed to confront threats from above and below.

An Israeli woman was stabbed on Wednesday near the entrance of the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem, police said.

The pope made the private visit to the statue shortly after 6 a.m.

A meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and Canadian Indigenous people who were abused at church-run boarding schools has been postponed because of the new coronavirus variant.