With just one day to go until the general election, the founder of Street Pastors is pleading with the nation’s next leaders to tackle knife crime. Rev Les Isaac said that political parties must keep efforts to reduce knife crime on the national agenda after latest government figures released in January revealed a 5% increase…
Church of England bishops are inviting the nation to pray and participate in the upcoming general election, which takes place on 4 July. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, are urging people to set aside time to pray but are also appealing for campaigning to be marked by “respect”,…
-14 Year Old Boy Stabbed To Death As Church Calls For Prayers Church attended by 14 year old boy named Daniel Anjorin, has called for prayers after he was stabbed to death. According to reports, Marcus Aurelio Arduini Monzo, the man who stabbed the 14 year old boy has been charged to court with a series of offences. Some…
A bishop was stabbed while livestreaming a church service in Sydney, Australia, on Monday – the country’s second knife attack in less than three days. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was one of four people injured in the attack at the Christ the Good Shepherd church in the Wakeley area of the city. He belongs to the Assyrian…
Church leaders have expressed “very grave concerns” about proposals to assisted suicide legal in Scotland. Rev Andrew Downie, Moderator of the United Free Church of Scotland, and Rev Bob Akroyd, Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, are urging MSPs not to support Liam McArthur’s Bill to legalise assisted suicide. In a letter to all 129 MSPs,…
Pope Francis visited the female penitentiary of Rebibbia in Rome on Thursday (March 28) to celebrate the Holy Thursday ritual of feet washing, continuing the pontiff’s tradition of visiting marginalized groups on the Thursday before Easter. It’s the first time a pope has washed the feet of a group made up solely of women. The…
An Abuja-based furniture maker, whose name was given as Chukwudiaso Onyema, who went viral after demanding for a refund of the tithe he paid to a popular church he was attending in Abuja, during an interview with The Punch, spoke on what led to his decision. When he was asked if Dunamis responded to the…
At least 15 people have been reported dead after an attack on a Catholic church in Burkina Faso on Sunday. The attack happened in Essakane village, in Oudalan province. The area lies close to Burkina Faso’s border with Mali in the north-east of the country. The BBC reports that gunmen carried out the attack during a…
-King Charles III Diagnosed With Cancer As Church Raise Prayers Church leaders have raised prayers unto God for King Charles III, has he was diagnosed with cancer a week after being discharged from hospital for prostate surgery. In a statement made by Buckingham Palace, it revealed that the cancer was discovered during a “procedure for benign prostate…
(CP) More than two years after his death, T.B. Joshua, one of Nigeria’s most controversial megachurch preachers and televangelists, has been accused of secretly abusing and raping young women on three continents several times a week for nearly two decades. Dozens of survivors alleged in a BBC investigation that contrary to the image of a godly prophet he…
