Religion News

3:34 AM on Saturday, October 25

Traditionalist Catholics are celebrating after Pope Leo XIV approved the old Latin Mass at St. Peter's Basilica

12:15 PM on Friday, October 24

5:57 AM on Friday, October 24

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has toured a U.S.-led coordination center in southern Israel

5:09 AM on Friday, October 24

Police in Pakistan say that three police officers have been killed when a powerful roadside bomb struck a police vehicle in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s northwest

6:19 PM on Thursday, October 23

A 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head during a deadly attack at a Minneapolis Catholic church in August has been released from the hospital

8:46 AM on Thursday, October 23

Authorities say Pakistan has banned a radical Islamist party behind recent violent protests that left at least one police officer and four civilians dead

5:19 AM on Thursday, October 23

4:38 AM on Thursday, October 23

Belfast judge acquits ex-British soldier of murder and attempted murder charges in 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre

4:19 AM on Thursday, October 23

Vice President JD Vance criticizes Israel's parliament vote on West Bank annexation, says the move was an 'insult'

3:12 AM on Thursday, October 23

An American missionary has been kidnapped in Niger's capital, Niamey, according to security sources and local media

2:04 AM on Thursday, October 23

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have visited the Vatican to pray with Pope Leo XIV

1:09 AM on Thursday, October 23

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation

10:10 PM on Wednesday, October 22

10:01 PM on Wednesday, October 22

Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where the Gospel narrates Jesus spent the last night before being taken up the other side of the valley into Jerusalem to be crucified

9:31 PM on Wednesday, October 22

A former British paratrooper who was the only soldier ever charged in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland has been acquitted of murder charges

7:26 PM on Wednesday, October 22

Saudi Arabia has appointed Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan as the new grand mufti, the kingdom's top religious scholar

8:17 AM on Wednesday, October 22

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is seeking to ease concerns in Israel that the Trump administration is dictating terms to its closest ally in the Middle East

6:27 AM on Wednesday, October 22

The Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts sought by Indigenous communities in Canada

6:08 AM on Wednesday, October 22

Rubio will travel to Israel and meet with Netanyahu, Israel says, as Trump officials aim to shore up Gaza ceasefire deal

10:03 PM on Tuesday, October 21

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must allow the U.N. aid agency, UNRWA, to provide humanitarian assistance in Gaza