Religion News

12:38 PM on Thursday, February 5

The incoming archbishop of New York says he plans to emphasize the importance of evangelizing as he takes charge of one of the biggest U.S. archdioceses

8:22 AM on Thursday, February 5

A BYU sports team was the target of a derogatory chant in an opponent’s venue for at least the fourth time in a year, and the Big 12 again announced the conference would look into the matter and the home team offered an apology

5:26 AM on Thursday, February 5

4:42 AM on Thursday, February 5

The Nigerian government has launched a military operation against Islamic militants after more than 160 people were killed in Muslim-majority villages

5:38 AM on Wednesday, February 4

The Angel Meloni is no more

9:02 PM on Tuesday, February 3

Attacks on Bangladesh’s Hindu minority have surged since the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in an uprising in 2024

6:16 AM on Tuesday, February 3

Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics

2:57 AM on Tuesday, February 3

Palestinians have gathered at Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt, hoping to pass through after it reopened

2:46 AM on Tuesday, February 3

12:11 AM on Tuesday, February 3

Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” have argued that Pope Francis violated the fundamental rights of their clients by issuing four secret decrees that gave prosecutors “surreal carte blanche” to investigate

11:03 PM on Monday, February 2

Independent journalist Don Lemon says about a dozen federal agents came to his Los Angeles hotel to arrest him last week

4:23 PM on Monday, February 2

Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from ending legal protections for 350,000 Haitians

11:34 AM on Monday, February 2

Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment” is undergoing its first major restoration in three decades

11:13 AM on Monday, February 2

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States

11:10 AM on Monday, February 2

8:34 AM on Monday, February 2

The appearance in a Roman church of a cherub that bears a striking resemblance to Premier Giorgia Meloni has sparked a minor scandal for both church and state in Italy

8:00 AM on Monday, February 2

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced two more arrests in the protest at a church in Minnesota against the immigration enforcement crackdown

4:04 AM on Monday, February 2

As a teenager in India, Susai Jesu led prayer services in his small Catholic village, helped at Mass and soon began training for the priesthood

11:42 PM on Sunday, February 1

Turkey is trying to bring U.S. and Iranian officials to the negotiating table to ease tensions and avoid U.S. military action against Iran

11:36 PM on Sunday, February 1

A dozen Palestinian returnees were allowed into Gaza and a few medical evacuees exited to Egypt Monday after the long-awaited reopening of the Rafah border crossing was marred by delays