Religion News

8:34 AM on Friday, March 27

Hamas is weighing a new proposal to give up its weapons in Gaza, a major concession that would clear the way for the U.S. plan for rebuilding the war-ravaged territory

4:00 AM on Friday, March 27

2:54 AM on Friday, March 27

A U.N. inquiry urges the Syrian government to investigate senior security officials involved in deadly sectarian clashes in Sweida province last summer

11:15 PM on Thursday, March 26

Israel’s military says it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward Israel for the first time

10:19 PM on Thursday, March 26

Pope Leo XIV is going to the principality of Monaco for a one-day trip

9:11 PM on Thursday, March 26

Iran has kept firing missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab nation, including a strike Friday at a military base in Saudi Arabia that U.S. officials said wounded at least 10 U.S. service members, two of them seriously

10:55 AM on Thursday, March 26

Under Denver Archbishop James Francis Stafford and his successors, Charles Chaput and Samuel Aquila, Denver became a national hub for some of the most influential conservative Catholic evangelizing ministries

5:01 AM on Thursday, March 26

After more than a decade living with chronic kidney failure, Mexican activist Samara Martínez has turned her personal struggle into a campaign to decriminalize euthanasia

3:05 AM on Thursday, March 26

Israel is trading fire with Hezbollah, calling for mass evacuations and sending ground troops deeper into Lebanon

1:50 AM on Thursday, March 26

British police say two men arrested in connection with an arson attack that destroyed four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity have been released on bail as authorities continue to investigate the suspected antisemitic hate crime

8:53 PM on Wednesday, March 25

President Donald Trump has delayed a threatened U.S. strike on Iran’s energy infrastructure and extended a deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz until April 6

12:58 PM on Wednesday, March 25

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has hosted a monthly Christian prayer and worship service at the Pentagon, the first since the Iran war began

11:25 AM on Wednesday, March 25

5:07 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Pope Leo XIV has filled one of the most important Vatican vacancies by tapping an Australian church lawyer to serve as the Holy See’s chief legal expert

4:03 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Over the past five years, the Rev. Brian Strassburger has gone from ministering to throngs of asylum-seekers in overcrowded shelters at the U.S.-Mexico border to celebrating Mass with detained and deported migrants

1:47 AM on Wednesday, March 25

British police have arrested two men over an arson attack that destroyed four ambulances from a Jewish charity

10:21 PM on Tuesday, March 24

Sarah Mullally, a one-time cancer nurse who became a priest, was installed as archbishop of Canterbury

9:42 PM on Tuesday, March 24

Iran has dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East, issuing its own counterproposal instead, as it launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries

7:40 AM on Tuesday, March 24

5:43 AM on Sunday, March 22