Religion News

3:44 AM on Thursday, April 2

Iran responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to Americans on the war with new missile attacks targeting Israel and the Gulf Arab states

7:55 AM on Wednesday, April 1

London police have arrested three more suspects in the arson attack that burned four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity

7:09 AM on Wednesday, April 1

The last ghoulish gargoyle has been returned to its perch during a two-year restoration of a Kentucky cathedral modeled after Notre Dame in Paris

7:07 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Good Friday is a unique and uniquely solemn day in the Christian calendar

4:17 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Chile’s new president is a devout Catholic in a country that has grown increasingly secular but retains conservative traits in various areas

4:03 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Beirut is bursting under a massive wave of displaced people as Israel’s attacks and evacuation orders drive families out of southern and eastern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs

2:40 AM on Wednesday, April 1

President Donald Trump says U_S_ forces will “finish the job” in Iran soon as “core strategic objectives are nearing completion.”

1:03 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Across Greece and in Orthodox communities around the world, a centuries-old Lenten fast offers a modern lesson in diet and discipline

4:46 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A federal judge has ordered the University of Pennsylvania to hand over records about Jewish employees on campus to a federal agency as part of an investigation into antisemitic discrimination

4:05 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Pope Leo XIV expressed hope that the U.S.-Israel war on Iran could end before Easter

3:10 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A fire destroyed the main meditation hall at Tassajara Mountain Zen Center in Central California, as monks neared the end of a long retreat

12:34 PM on Tuesday, March 31

The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an Oklahoma woman in the 1980s has been released from an Oklahoma jail

10:08 AM on Tuesday, March 31

The Supreme Court has ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that banned the discredited practice

9:14 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Vice President JD Vance has a new book about his religious faith and adult conversion to Catholicism

4:24 AM on Tuesday, March 31

A 101-year-old survivor of Auschwitz has, with help from Steven Spielberg, become a mighty warrior against antisemitism in France

1:44 AM on Tuesday, March 31

President Donald Trump lashed out at allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U.S. war effort against Iran

1:30 PM on Monday, March 30

Spain’s Catholic bishops and the government have taken another step toward compensating victims of sexual abuse by clergy members who have died or whose possible crimes are too old to be prosecuted

1:28 PM on Monday, March 30

1:50 AM on Monday, March 30

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, potentially including desalination plants that supply drinking water

5:39 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Iran's parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has emerged as a possible U.S. contact for talks even as the Iranian leadership remains under fire during the war