Christian Today staff writer

• Top South Korean cleric apologises after priest is accused of attempted rape

  One of South Korea's top Catholic clerics made a public apology today after a woman parishioner complained that a senior priest had attempted to rape her, amid growing criticism over the incident.

• Campaigners want answers over death of Chinese Christian lawyer

  Dr Li Baiguang, 49, died on Monday at a government military hospital in Nanjing after checking in for a stomach complaint. The hospital said he bled to death because of a liver condition.

• German church's 'Hitler' bell can stay, parish council rules

  A church bell cast in honour of Adolph Hitler will remain in place after the parish council of Herxheim am Berg, southwest Germany, voted on Monday to keep it.

• Prisons are on the hunt for pagan chaplains

  Prisons are on the hunt for pagan chaplains to 'provide for the religious care of prisoners and staff in the Pagan faith tradition'.

• As Algeria ramps up pressure on Christians, World Evangelical Alliance calls for religious freedom

  Following heightened government pressure on churches and Christians in Algeria, the World Evangelical Alliance's (WEA) Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) has called on authorities there to ensure religious freedom for people of all faiths.

• 'Guitar hero for bellringers': Virtual bells at Victorian church will ring the changes

  Electronic sensors will allow trainee bellringers at a Victorian church in Cumbria, northern England, to practise their art without disturbing local residents.

• George W Bush joins crowds mourning Billy Graham in North Carolina

  The former president George W Bush and his wife Laura joined the crowd mourning the passing of Billy Graham in Charlotte, North Carolina on Monday, and paid tribute to the late evangelist.

• Islamic State targets Russian Orthodox Church head and Putin

  Islamic State is taking aim in new propaganda posters at the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, as well as the Russian president Vladimir Putin alongside previous posters depicting the US and London as targets, according to orthodoxia.info and the SITE Intelligence Group.

• Young people aren't even curious about God, new research suggests

  Young people are showing little interest in God or questions of faith, new research is claiming.

• Dagestan's deadly church attack: 3 arrests made

  Three people have been arrested in connection with the gun attack at a Russian Orthodox Church in Dagestan which took placeon February 18 in which five people died and five others were injured, World Watch Monitor (WWM) reported.

• Gardener in Galilee finds 700-year-old St Nicholas ring

  A rare, intact bronze ring from the Middle Ages, bearing the image of St Nicholas, popularly known today as Santa Claus, was discovered by chance during recent landscaping work in the garden of a home in a community in the Jezreel Valley, lower Galilee.

• Cathedral invaded as violence flares in Congo over church-backed protests

  At least two people were killed and hundreds of ruling party supporters stormed Kinshasa cathedral in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo this weekend after the authorities there banned a planned church-backed rally against the country's president, Joseph Kabila.