Religion News

11:30 AM on Tuesday, May 19

10:35 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Authorities say the three people killed by two teen shooters at a San Diego mosque died while saving roughly 140 children who were in the building at the time of the attack

7:20 AM on Tuesday, May 19

The body overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza plans to ask the United Nations Security Council to press Hamas to disarm

10:44 PM on Monday, May 18

Authorities say the two teenagers who shot and killed three people in an attack on a California mosque had been radicalized online where they first met

9:04 PM on Monday, May 18

Loud and expressive mourners are common at funerals around the world — but in parts of Kenya, some of them may be paid workers

6:47 PM on Monday, May 18

An attack by two teenagers on a San Diego mosque left a community mourning its victims, Muslim leaders calling for increased security and investigators parsing white supremacist writings by the suspects

3:41 PM on Monday, May 18

An attack on a mosque in San Diego has resurrected fears about violence at houses of worship

2:16 PM on Monday, May 18

Authorities say two teenage suspects opened fire at an Islamic center in San Diego, killing three men before killing themselves

12:29 PM on Monday, May 18

Police say a shooting at a San Diego mosque has killed three men and both shooters are dead

4:38 AM on Monday, May 18

Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah are set to launch the pontiff’s first encyclical on May 25

8:24 AM on Sunday, May 17

Thousands of people have streamed onto the National Mall in Washington for a daylong prayer rally

6:03 AM on Sunday, May 17

Indigenous leaders say that federal contractors are desecrating sacred Native American places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace in the rush to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border

3:34 AM on Sunday, May 17

A drone strike has targeted the United Arab Emirates’ sole nuclear power plant

10:29 PM on Saturday, May 16

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library

4:09 AM on Saturday, May 16

Pope Leo XIV is adding a trip to France to his busy 2026 travel schedule

3:32 AM on Saturday, May 16

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed Hamas military wing leader Izz al-Din al-Haddad

9:01 PM on Friday, May 15

Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence in a sign of his ongoing concern about the technology

4:53 PM on Friday, May 15

A Catholic church in Eldoret, an epicenter of global long-distance running in the north Rift Valley region of Kenya, is in the spotlight after a runner prayed there and later won the London Marathon

10:27 AM on Friday, May 15

An Iraqi national accused of plotting at least 18 terror attacks in Europe in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel's war in Iran has been arrested and charged with supporting Iran-backed terrorist organizations

10:06 PM on Thursday, May 14

Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba