Religion News

11:40 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Iran hit a tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait International Airport as Tehran acknowledged for the first time that Washington had been in direct contact about a possible ceasefire

10:03 PM on Tuesday, March 31

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

1:46 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

1:05 PM on Tuesday, March 31

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

12:10 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

9:34 AM 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

7:08 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

6:14 AM on Tuesday, March 31

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

1:24 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

10:44 PM on Monday, March 30

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

10:30 AM 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

10:28 AM on Monday, March 30

5:39 AM on Monday, March 30

4:10 AM on Monday, March 30

Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over the course of a week each spring

11:02 PM on Sunday, March 29

In a tribal battle fought over a century ago, according to oral history, a prophet in South Sudan raised his stick and summoned a thunderbolt that killed a crowd of fighters from a rival tribe

10:50 PM on Sunday, March 29

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

8:48 AM on Sunday, March 29

Actor Antonio Banderas has joined the crowds in dozens of Palm Sunday processions, marking the official start of Holy Week in Spain

12:05 PM on Thursday, March 26

A young Spanish woman died in Barcelona after winning a long court fight for her euthanasia right

6:05 AM on Wednesday, March 25

2:39 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