Religion News

10:25 PM on Friday, September 5

Iran is paving over a lot in Tehran's largest cemetery believed to be the final resting place for some of the thousands killed in the mass executions that followed the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution

11:22 AM on Friday, September 5

National conservatism is reshaping the Republican Party in President Donald Trump’s second term

8:57 AM on Friday, September 5

Pope Leo XIV has inaugurated a new sustainable farming project run by the Vatican

8:55 AM on Friday, September 5

5:58 AM on Friday, September 5

Israel has struck a high-rise building in Gaza City after warning residents to evacuate

4:05 AM on Friday, September 5

Members of California’s Sikh trucking community say a deadly crash involving one of its own has led to a spike in anti-Sikh rhetoric

10:15 PM on Thursday, September 4

Pope Leo XIV will preside over his first canonization ceremony Sunday to create the first millennial saint

10:12 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Ukrainian government has declared that a branch of the Orthodox Church has failed to sever all ties with Moscow — and could soon be banned

12:34 PM on Thursday, September 4

The shooter who killed two children and injured 21 others at a Minneapolis church was seen on video visiting a suburban gun shop the weekend before the attack

10:17 AM on Thursday, September 4

Somalis have marked the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday with a government-declared public holiday, reviving an old tradition of merriment once banned by extremist militants who reject such public spectacle

6:47 AM on Thursday, September 4

Health officials in the Gaza Strip say that more than 64,000 have been killed in the nearly two-year war

2:14 AM on Thursday, September 4

Pope Leo XIV and his top diplomats have told Israel’s president that a two-state solution is the “only way out of the war,” in Gaza

1:50 AM on Thursday, September 4

A Moroccan court has sentenced feminist activist Ibtissam Lachgar to two and a half years in prison and fined her $5,000 for blasphemy

9:38 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Vice President JD Vance has visited Minneapolis to meet with families affected by a deadly church shooting

5:03 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The United Arab Emirates has warned that any Israeli move to annex the occupied West Bank would be a “red line,” without specifying its possible impact on the landmark normalization accord between the two countries

12:12 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Israeli drones have dropped grenades near U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon

2:59 PM on Tuesday, September 2

Since 2015, more than 1,300 residents at homeless shelters around the country have trained to run half-marathons through Up and Running Again, a nonprofit that uses faith and running to promote personal transformation

12:25 PM on Tuesday, September 2

A pine tree in Bolivia's capital, La Paz, has become a symbol of hope and devotion after being struck by lightning 10 years ago

11:54 AM on Tuesday, September 2

The Vatican is inaugurating an ambitious educational center inspired by Pope Francis’ ecological legacy

1:50 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Israel is mobilizing tens of thousands of reservists as part of a gradual call-up tied to its expanded offensive in the Gaza Strip's largest city