Three years ago, Iceland's small Jewish community was fighting legislation that would ban the circumcision of children. It was an uphill battle because Judaism was not on the island nation's list of ...

The Vatican announced Friday that Pope Francis has appointed Fr. David Tencer, O.F.M. Cap., as bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland. Born in Nova Bana, Slovakia in 1963, Bishop-elect Fr. Tencer was ordained a ...

The Catholic Church is resuming public Sunday Masses in Iceland after the government raised the number of people permitted to gather in churches from 10 to 20. Bishop David Tencer of Reykjavik, the ...

GARðABÆR, ICELAND—An excavation conducted at Bessastaðir church on the west coast of Iceland uncovered the remains of two people, according to an Iceland Review report. Occupation of the Bessastaðir ...

Conservative Christians are outraged by an ad from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland that depicts Jesus as having a beard, breasts, and make-up. The ad, which will run on buses in Iceland’s ...

Way better than a bake sale! The church is in trouble. According to a recent Pew survey , 68% of American Millennials polled said they had never doubted God’s existence. That might not sound dire, but ...

The jagged piece of rock was transferred in two pieces ByNews from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring A long-running dispute in Iceland about a new road ...

Board member Arnor Bjarki Svarfdal Arnarson says Zuists want the state to stop funding religious organisations ByNews from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring ...