Religion News

8:22 AM on Tuesday, April 21

6:54 AM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump and many of his conservative Christian supporters are participating in a marathon Bible reading event

6:40 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Pope Leo XIV has paid tribute to Pope Francis on Tuesday on the first anniversary of his death

4:11 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Pakistani officials say the United States and Iran have signaled they will hold new ceasefire talks in Islamabad

1:13 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Equatorial Guinea for the final leg of his four-nation African journey

12:41 AM on Tuesday, April 21

There appears to be movement toward another round of U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks, with two regional officials telling The Associated Press Tuesday that both countries have signaled a return to Pakistan for discussions

9:46 AM on Monday, April 20

The Supreme Court will hear from Catholic preschools that say it’s unconstitutional to exclude them from a state-funded program because they won’t admit kids from LGBTQ+ families

8:41 AM on Monday, April 20

There is a case to be made that Pope Leo XIV found his voice on his epic and ongoing trip through Africa

4:47 AM on Monday, April 20

Europe is focusing on the Palestinians after Hungary's election defeat of Israel ally Viktor Orbán

4:01 AM on Monday, April 20

British police have arrested two teenagers in connection with a weekend arson attack on a synagogue in northwest London as Jewish leaders express concern about a wave of recent incidents targeting their community

3:02 AM on Monday, April 20

U.S. President Donald Trump is giving mixed messages about the path ahead for the U.S. war with Iran

2:43 AM on Monday, April 20

President Donald Trump is defending his Iran war strategy, attacking critics and skeptics on Monday as “TRAITORS, ALL” after a second round of talks with Iran were thrown into doubt by the U.S. Navy’s seizure of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz

11:23 AM on Sunday, April 19

A Portuguese priest, Father Guilherme Peixoto, hosted a rave in Buenos Aires to honor the late Pope Francis

7:12 AM on Sunday, April 19

British police say they are investigating whether a series of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London are the work of Iranian proxies

6:48 AM on Sunday, April 19

Pope Leo XIV has traveled to pray at a popular Catholic shrine in Angola that was an epicenter of the African slave trade

3:32 AM on Sunday, April 19

The U.S. says it has attacked and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz that tried to get around its blockade of Iranian ports

12:47 AM on Sunday, April 19

President Donald Trump says the U.S. seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around its naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz

12:56 AM on Saturday, April 18

Iran has reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and fired on a tanker attempting to pass the waterway

5:15 PM on Wednesday, April 15

1:08 AM on Friday, April 10

Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the early globe-trotting odysseys of St. John Paul II