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A 70-year-old priest in Venice claims to have been subjected to threats and physical assault from a gang of migrant youths after he confronted their aggressive behaviour.

Italian priest Michele Crociata, an expert scholar of Islam, has praised populist interior minister Matteo Salvini for protecting Italy’s borders and for being public about his Christian faith.

OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO (AFP) – Gunmen killed a priest and five church-goers during mass on Sunday in an attack on a Catholic church in Dablo, northern Burkina Faso, security sources and local official said.

A Greek Orthodox priest was beaten by a pair of Syrian asylum seekers in front of his own church.

The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh says a priest has been put on leave following allegations of sexual abuse brought against him.

A man stabbed a Brazilian pastor in the neck during a televised mass, witnesses say.

A pagan priest who fought the Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Maine to wear horns in his license photo has won his battle on religious grounds.

A California man, who was previously convicted of impersonating a Roman Catholic priest and swindling parishioners out of thousands of dollars, was sentenced to 264 days in jail Friday after he was caught impersonating a priest again while on probation.

TEL AVIV – Now that France has been forced into a war against terrorism, it would do well to take lessons from Israel, a French parliamentarian told Arutz Sheva in the wake of the murder of a priest in Normandy by

A self-declared “Progressive, radical Anglocatholic Parish iPriest” has said he believes Labour’s anti-Semitism problems have been made up by the “right wing press” and that only conservatives are “racist”. The Reverend Simon Rundell, a Parish Priest in the Diocese of Exeter and card-carrying

A priest in the Philippines who rode around his church on a hoverboard at the end of Christmas mass has been temporarily suspended by his diocese for a period to “reflect” on his actions.

The lifeless body of 60-year-old Father Francisco Javier Gutiérrez Díaz was found Tuesday night with a gunshot wound to the head, dumped by the side of a road in a rural district of the central Mexican state of Guanajuato.

Though the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, claims he reveres Pope Francis as the “Father of all Christians,” he has defied the Pope’s decision to permit Chaldean priests, including one based in San Diego, to stay in the United States rather than obey Sako’s injunction to return to Iraq or face excommunication.

The high profile murders appear to have no end in Mexico as the country now rallies around the kidnapping and murder of a Catholic priest in the violent Mexican State of Guerrero; the priest is the third religious man to be murdered in that state this year and just one of many kidnapped priests.