Religion News

8:33 AM on Saturday, August 16

Suspected Islamist rebels have killed at least 30 people in a series of attacks in Bapere village, Congo

10:02 PM on Friday, August 15

Pope Leo XIV is marking his first 100 days in office, showing a mix of continuity with and change from Pope Francis' papacy

7:08 AM on Friday, August 15

A video widely circulated on Friday shows Israel’s far-right national security minister admonishing a Palestinian leader face-to-face inside a prison, saying Israel will confront anyone who acts against the country and “wipe them out.”

6:26 AM on Friday, August 15

Police say a shooting near a mosque in central Sweden has left one person dead and another injured

5:39 AM on Friday, August 15

4:21 AM on Friday, August 15

Pope Leo XIV is praying for a peaceful end to the “increasingly deafening violence” of wars around the world

1:56 AM on Friday, August 15

French President Emmanuel Macron says no effort is being spared to track down and prosecute unknown attackers who felled an olive tree planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, a French Jew murdered in 2006

11:36 PM on Thursday, August 14

6:26 PM on Thursday, August 14

1:56 PM on Thursday, August 14

Orthodox Christians across Alaska are taking part in three days of prayer for peace, ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin

8:09 AM on Thursday, August 14

Taylor Swift's new album announcement has everybody seeing orange

3:00 AM on Thursday, August 14

A U.N.-backed commission has found widespread and systematic violence against civilians in Syria's coastal region

2:51 AM on Thursday, August 14

Flash floods caused by torrential rains in Indian-controlled Kashmir have left at least 56 people

2:34 AM on Thursday, August 14

Israel’s far-right finance minister says a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is going ahead, a project that Palestinians and rights groups worry will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state by effectively cutting the West Bank into two separate parts

2:29 AM on Thursday, August 14

(CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously carried a dateline of MAALE ADUMIM, Israel. The dateline should be MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank.)

2:20 AM on Thursday, August 14

Over 100 nonprofit groups have warned that Israel's rules for aid organizations in Gaza and the West Bank will block crucial relief efforts

9:54 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A group of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots is working together to restore cemeteries on both sides of divided Cyprus

2:28 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The leader of the small Baha’i community in Qatar has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges alleging that posts on Baha’i social media accounts “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion."

12:49 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A new study warns that rising sea levels could threaten Easter Island’s iconic moai statues by the end of the century

10:44 AM on Wednesday, August 13

A pickup truck has crashed into a van carrying members of an Amish group in rural Michigan, killing at least six people