The pastor of Cornerstone Church West LA — a multiethnic Protestant church that holds services in English, Spanish and Farsi — is protesting outside the White House, advocating not just for the five members of his own congregation who are still detained.

For Christian leaders across the world and across denominations, the anniversary of the first Council of Nicaea is providing an opportunity for introspection and, potentially, the beginning of further dialogue.

On Sunday, leaders of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church will gather in Sofia to decide on their new spiritual head—the Patriarch of All Bulgaria.

In both a book and in videos, Alikakos recorded testimony that the priests themselves lit the flames. The Jerusalem Patriarch said he was tarnishing the authority of his priests.

Gunshots rang out during Mass in Istanbul's Santa Maria Italian Catholic Church Sunday (Jan. 28), as two gunmen assaulted the building, killing one in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group, also known as IS. 

A new bill allowing same-sex marriage in Greece is testing a longstanding reality in Greek public life: the influence of the Greek Orthodox Church.

A tiny Christian minority sitting on one of the Holy Land's most valuable pieces of real estate has rebelled against a real-estate deal that would sacrifice nearly 25% of its land in Jerusalem.

Hundreds of Turkey's Assyrian Syriac Christians gathered in Istanbul’s leafy Yeşilköy neighborhood to witness the inauguration of Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox Church, the first new Syriac church in more than a century.