Religion News

10:28 AM on Sunday, August 30

Hundreds of mourners have gathered at a church near Haiti’s capital for the funeral of four victims of a brutal gang attack

4:57 AM on Sunday, August 30

Iran’s supreme leader has called for Muslim countries to stand together against Israel and the United States

9:37 PM on Saturday, August 29

Authorities in Nepal are warning of potential fresh flooding as water levels rise in the Bhotekoshi River

3:02 PM on Saturday, August 29

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has apologized to the state's Jewish Democratic Caucus

8:52 AM on Saturday, August 29

Israel’s prime minister has spoken out after weeks of settler violence in the occupied West Bank and condemned the criminal actions of a “handful of rioters.”

9:02 PM on Friday, August 28

Poor weather temporarily hampered aerial rescue operations in Nepal as the search for thousands of missing people in areas devastated by catastrophic flash floods along the border with China entered its fourth day

10:33 AM on Friday, August 28

Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish scholar of Christian Scriptures, has faced antisemitic backlash after being elected the first Jewish president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America

8:40 AM on Friday, August 28

Four men have pleaded guilty to destroying four Jewish community ambulances in an arson attack in north London earlier this year that many said was a direct result of the start of the Iran war

5:02 AM on Friday, August 28

Mohan Bhagwat, head of the Hindu nationalist group RSS, is set to speak in New York City on Saturday

3:52 AM on Friday, August 28

Israeli airstrikes have killed five people in Gaza and three in the West Bank, despite a fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States

9:56 PM on Thursday, August 27

There is a thriving nightlife in Nigeria's conservative Sokoto state, which is known as the “seat of the caliphate” for its storied place in the birth and propagation of Islam in West and Central Africa

9:51 PM on Thursday, August 27

An increasing number of spiritual seekers are finding that artificial intelligence is giving them non-judgmental access to spiritual insights

8:23 PM on Thursday, August 27

Rescuers on the Nepal-China border are pulling out flood survivors caked in dark brown mud while helicopters lift stranded people to safety

1:07 PM on Thursday, August 27

1:37 AM on Thursday, August 27

Qatar and other regional powers are seeking an off-ramp from the U.S. war

1:31 AM on Thursday, August 27

Mount Kailash in Tibet is sacred to several religious traditions and draws pilgrims from many places

12:57 AM on Thursday, August 27

Catastrophic flash floods in a border area of China and Nepal have killed at least 500 and left more than 1,500 people missing as of Friday

9:02 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Saint Fanourios, the Orthodox Christian patron saint of lost things, is honored each Aug. 27 with prayers and traditional orange-flavored cake

7:48 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Rescue teams and military helicopters are searching for hundreds of missing people after flash floods on the Nepal-China border

11:56 AM on Monday, August 24

Israeli strikes and tank fire in Gaza have killed at least four people, including two children, according to hospital officials