A Bible, which was found the trenches during World War I, will bring together the families of the man who owned it and the man who found it to commemorate the two soldiers in a service of remembrance this October.

Up to 30,000 pilgrims, including the sick and elderly, had to be evacuated from Lourdes on Sunday following a bomb scare which later turned out to be a hoax.

This year’s World Cup victors dedicated their trophy to Our Lady of Guadalupe at the Marian basilica in Mexico City in fulfillment of a promise made by the president of the Spanish Royal Federation of Soccer ahead of the tournament.

The UN has confirmed the discovery of a case of cholera in Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest raising concerns that thousands now face a new threat from the deadly, waterborne disease.

Two religious orders are among a group of 88 investors who are taking legal proceedings against the London-based investment bank Morgan Stanley.

Church agencies working in Pakistan have stepped up their efforts to distribute vitally needed relief supplies to some of the millions of people affected by the worst flood in the South Asian nation's history.

Pope Benedict has described the founder of the Taizé ecumenical community, who was killed five years ago, as an “untiring witness of Gospel peace and reconciliation”.

Three church bells which were shipped to Swansea from Chile after a fire in 1863 killed over 2,500 people at the Santiago parish are to be returned to the Chilean capital as part of a new memorial.

Pope Benedict is reported to have refused to accept the resignations of two Irish bishops who stepped down in the wake of the publication of the Murphy report into the handling of clerical sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin.

Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has published an article defending the decision in 1994 to permit female altar servers.