Religion News

11:49 PM on Monday, September 21

New Zealand authorities have stripped the Gloriavale commune's charity arm of tax-exempt status

11:13 PM on Monday, September 21

Pope Leo XIV plans to meet with seven survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy during his visit to France

12:20 PM on Monday, September 21

The attorney for a North Carolina girl accused of helping two teens who carried out a fatal attack on a San Diego mosque says prosecutors haven’t provided enough information to allow him to defend his client

10:10 AM on Monday, September 21

A 29-year-old man opened fire on a police officer outside an Ontario synagogue during Yom Kippur, leading to a shootout with up to 30 shots fired

5:33 AM on Monday, September 21

Pope Leo XIV is set to return to Peru in November, retracing his steps as a missionary priest

3:44 AM on Monday, September 21

A spokesperson for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard warned that Iran would change its weapons, military tactics and targets if the conflict with the United States escalates

11:19 PM on Sunday, September 20

Pope Leo XIV opens a four-day visit to France this weekend that is expected to touch on church teaching about the value of all human life

9:21 PM on Sunday, September 20

Authorties say a police officer and a man were wounded in an exchange of gunfire near a synagogue in Ontario as members of the Jewish community marked Yom Kippur

8:56 AM on Sunday, September 20

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she’ll soon introduce a measure to her government that would cap the number of foreign students in classrooms and ban face burqas and niqabs in schools

2:50 AM on Sunday, September 20

A senior Houthi official says the group has assured the Trump administration it won’t attack U.S. vessels in the Red Sea

9:01 PM on Saturday, September 19

Colorado State issued an apology to BYU on Saturday night for derogatory chants from the stands

12:12 PM on Saturday, September 19

The city of Dearborn, Michigan, says its diversity and welcoming nature are to blame for a lawsuit accusing it of favoring Muslim holidays over the holidays of other religious faiths

11:42 AM on Saturday, September 19

Israel's president has pardoned a combat medic who shot dead a badly wounded Palestinian attacker a decade ago

7:30 AM on Saturday, September 19

Iran's most prominent human rights activist says Iranians are suffering seven months into the war and paying the price for the conflict

4:14 AM on Saturday, September 19

Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims have filed lawsuits in California to reclaim Nazi-looted paintings from museums in Los Angeles and Poland

12:11 AM on Saturday, September 19

Saudi Arabia has confirmed that Yemen’s Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile

11:43 PM on Friday, September 18

Pakistani security forces have ended a standoff with militants inside a police compound in northwestern Pakistan

4:17 PM on Friday, September 18

The stabbing of a Sikh truck driver at a Wyoming rest area has the U.S. Sikh community newly on edge

3:11 PM on Friday, September 18

The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their ban on the medical use of donated blood

11:34 PM on Thursday, September 17

Iran says it has struck an oil tanker trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz