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LONDON – The President of the Baptist World Alliance has urged evangelicals in the United Kingdom to make more of an effort to be united.

The inauguration of Barack Obama as America’s first black president is a "transformative" moment in history that will have huge significance for the rest of the world, say church leaders.

Church services to mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday were especially poignant this year, as black preachers across the country used the pulpit to remember the civil rights campaigner’s dream of a racially just world and hail the upcoming inauguration of America’s first black president.

The interdependence of human beings makes it necessary to bear each other’s burdens, says the General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation.

Saving mankind from homosexual and transsexual behavior is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction, said Pope Benedict on Monday.

Christian campaigners have lost their High Court bid to overturn licenses allowing two universities to create animal-human embryos for research purposes.

Tension has eased in Nigeria's central city of Jos following a weekend of deadly violence, but resentment is growing among members of the Christian community there who feel that the international media's reporting of events has been “biased and inaccurate," according to a human rights organization.

Thousands of Russians lined up on Sunday to pay their last respects to late Orthodox leader, Alexy II, as he lay in state at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.

An advertising watchdog has banned a newspaper ad – run by a Belfast, Ireland, church – condemning homosexuality. The Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the ad was offensive and indecent.

Conservative Anglican primates, leaders of national churches, will meet the Archbishop of Canterbury Friday for emergency talks over the formation of a new Anglican province in North America.

We will only end world poverty by working with people who have faiths other than our own – so let’s do it right,” said Christian Aid’s Inter-Community Initiatives Manager, Nigel Varndell, following a major conference on inter-faith humanitarian work this week.

Former U.S. president and prominent Baptist Jimmy Carter expressed his shock on Monday at the extent of Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis, saying that it appeared to be far worse than he had imagined.

The head of the World Council of Churches has challenged the legitimacy of the G20 group of the world's 20 leading economies as the leaders meet in Washington, D.C., this weekend to discuss the future of the global economy in the midst of the global economic crisis.

The Bishop of Stafford has told Christians that they have a “moral duty” to oppose the British Nationalist Party.

“We are not great because of what we have achieved but because God achieves extraordinary things through us ordinary people,” the General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation told the European Church Consultation last week.

The Christian Institute has welcomed the decision by Google to allow religious groups to place ads on the issue of abortion after legal proceedings against the world's biggest search engine were settled "on amicable terms."