A missionary couple that was sentenced to one year of hard labor for undermining the authority of Gambia’s government offered a public apology Sunday and asked for a presidential pardon.

What should your goals be for the coming year? The most important resolution you can make is to commit your life to Christ and live for Him, writes Billy Graham.

Hugh Jackman has revealed that he has spent years soul-searching for a spiritual belief system separate from Christianity, and he believes in love at first sight

Tom Cruise, one of Scientology's best-known adherents, says he overcame the effects of his dyslexia thanks to the church's teachings.

It was recently announced that Barack Obama has asked megachurch pastor Rick Warren to pray at his inauguration.

The Supreme Court ordered authorities in Orissa on Monday to provide security to thousands of Christians who fled their homes after some of the worst religious violence in decades last year, officials said.

Throughout Palestinian Christian communities services focused today on peace and justice for the Gaza Strip. Christians in Gaza are holding limited organized events as Israeli forces continue to pummel the Strip by both air and land.

The Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem has expressed his dismay at the latest conflict to hit the Holy Land.

As Israel’s assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip continues, Christian groups are increasingly speaking out against the attacks on civilians and especially children, who make up more than half of the Gaza population.

The Vatican City State, the world's smallest sovereign state, has decided to divorce itself from Italian law.

A Christian conservative group says it will conduct daily prayers for President-elect Barack Obama.

Prison inspector and Christian Aid chair Anne Owers has been made a dame in recognition of her services to the criminal justice service.

The Anglican bishop of Pretoria - Right Reverend Dr Jo Seoka - on Thursday called upon President Kgalema Motlanthe to act against Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe.

The year 2008 was full of surprises for the Christian entertainment industry – from shocking confessions and tragic accidents to unexpected bestsellers and notable Christian-to-mainstream crossovers (and vice-versa). Topping the list is The Shack.

The problems in Africa cannot be solved with aid money alone, while Christianity offers change to the hearts and minds of people – something aid cannot do, argues Matthew Parris, in a column for UK-based The Times.

It is hard to imagine the situation in Zimbabwe becoming worse than it is, but health and aid agencies claim there is a rapid increase in cholera deaths and a spike in child malnutrition cases.

The Catholic aid agency said it believes 400 people were killed in massacres carried out in Congo by Ugandan rebels on Christmas Day and the days following.

More than 400 people have been killed by Ugandan rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo in attacks since Christmas day, aid agency Caritas says.

Has this year proved to be the year of the woman? Ever since Joan of Arc's intuition ended in English flames, women with political capital have too often lacked personal and public encouragement to make it to the top.

A Jewish Israeli and a Christian Palestinian, now living in Australia, reflect on the conflict tearing apart their former suburbs.

After a violence-free Christmas in the eastern state of Orissa, a new, worrisome development has emerged. Some Hindu members of a Maoist (banned, extreme Marxist) group, which was allegedly behind the killing of a Hindu nationalist leader in August that sparked an unprecedented spate of anti-Christian attacks in the state, have reportedly formed a new rival group to target Christians.

The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem has called for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, warning that health services there are failing to cope with the injuries sustained in the Israeli attacks.

Hundreds of thousands of people have attended an open-air Mass in central Madrid aimed at promoting family values in defiance of some government reforms.

Bishops denouncing the government are nothing new. But people are now listening to sermons on the evil of debt.

The Ugandan army on Sunday accused the rebels of hacking to death 45 people in a church in the northeast on Friday.