Religion News

12:18 AM on Wednesday, March 4

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha is releasing a report on child sexual abuse in the Diocese of Providence

12:28 PM on Tuesday, March 3

The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes has sparked anger across Shiite communities worldwide and is raising fears of wider unrest

4:43 AM on Tuesday, March 3

Pakistan says that Afghan forces have attacked Pakistani military positions along the border, triggering intense clashes that left 67 Afghan troops and one Pakistani soldier dead

1:20 AM on Tuesday, March 3

Holi is the Hindu festival of colors, which celebrates love, renewal and rejuvenation

10:05 PM on Monday, March 2

5:20 PM on Monday, March 2

Anglicans face a looming choice about whether their global church family can stay united

3:56 PM on Monday, March 2

Jews across Israel gathered in bomb shelters to mark the holiday of Purim as a precaution against possible Iranian missile attacks

2:20 PM on Monday, March 2

The Texas Legislature passed a bill last year giving schools the option of setting aside a daily school prayer period

12:18 PM on Monday, March 2

11:20 PM on Sunday, March 1

Iran's Revolutionary Guard has become a powerful force within the country's theocracy, answering only to the supreme leader

4:54 PM on Sunday, March 1

Palestinians in Gaza are reacting to a possible shift in the world's attention away from the Israel-Hamas ceasefire to a new regional conflict with Iran

8:00 AM on Sunday, March 1

Every Lunar New Year for the past 14 years, a Southern California Buddhist temple has displayed what it calls the “10,000 Buddha Relics.”

6:07 AM on Sunday, March 1

Afghanistan says it has thwarted an attempted Pakistani airstrike on Bagram Air Base

3:02 AM on Sunday, March 1

Authorities say at least 22 people were killed and more than 120 wounded in clashes with police on Sunday after protesters tried to storm the U.S. Consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi and U.N. offices in the north of the country

12:03 AM on Sunday, March 1

Many Algerians mark Ramadan with prayer and shared meals, but rising prices make the holiday table hard to afford

9:49 PM on Saturday, February 28

In Iran the supreme leader is the heart of a complex power-sharing theocracy and has final say over all matters of state

8:51 PM on Saturday, February 28

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, has been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes

6:50 AM on Saturday, February 28

The war in the Middle East has intensified with attacks from Iran and Iranian-backed militias hitting Israel and Arab states

8:43 AM on Tuesday, February 24

8:22 AM on Tuesday, February 10