Religion News

4:42 AM on Monday, March 16

A crowded welfare payment line in eastern Pakistan has turned deadly after a shop roof collapsed, killing at least eight women

9:01 PM on Sunday, March 15

France is ramping up its military push in the Middle East as President Emmanuel Macron calls the effort strictly defensive

5:23 AM on Sunday, March 15

Pope Leo XIV has urged a ceasefire in the Middle East and called on leaders in the Iran war to reopen talks

3:05 AM on Sunday, March 15

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are staying on the sidelines as the Iran war expands

1:15 AM on Sunday, March 15

Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people, including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said

11:17 PM on Saturday, March 14

A bus carrying Indian pilgrims has slipped off a mountain road in central Nepal, killing seven people and injuring nine others

9:33 PM on Saturday, March 14

President Donald Trump says he has “demanded” that about seven countries heavily reliant on Middle East oil join a coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz

9:20 PM on Saturday, March 14

Gulf countries have reported new Iranian attacks as the war in the Middle East entered its third week

9:06 AM on Saturday, March 14

Pope Leo XIV is moving into the newly renovated papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace

2:56 AM on Saturday, March 14

Dutch authorities are searching for two people who set off an explosion outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam

9:44 PM on Friday, March 13

Iran has threatened for the first time to attack civilian infrastructure in a neighboring country, urging people to evacuate three major ports in the United Arab Emirates it claimed the U.S. military was using to launch strikes on Iran

9:01 PM on Friday, March 13

The Michigan synagogue that came under attack this week when an armed man drove his car into the building had for months been strengthening its security apparatus

9:00 PM on Friday, March 13

Communities were reeling and authorities investigating after attacks at Old Dominion University in Virginia and a Michigan synagogue unfolded less than two hours apart

5:53 PM on Friday, March 13

Thailand’s “Death Fest” brings people together to talk openly about death and plan for it in practical ways

3:33 AM on Friday, March 13

Police in Rotterdam are treating a fire at the entrance to a synagogue as a possible arson attack

10:21 PM on Thursday, March 12

President Donald Trump says the U.S. bombed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network

9:03 PM on Thursday, March 12

A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a Detroit-area synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building

8:54 PM on Thursday, March 12

U.S. Marines are being deployed to the Middle East as American and Israeli strikes pound Iran

5:12 PM on Thursday, March 12

9:24 AM on Monday, March 9