Religion News

5:46 AM on Saturday, October 11

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri of the Zion Church has been detained in China, according to his daughter and a monitoring group

8:29 AM on Friday, October 10

UN will begin delivering scaled-up humanitarian aid into Gaza on Sunday as ceasefire takes effect, UN official says

7:38 AM on Friday, October 10

Dutch far right politician Geert Wilders says he’s suspending campaigning for national elections later this month amid reports that he was a possible target of a suspected plot in Belgium to kill politicians using a drone carrying explosives

6:24 AM on Friday, October 10

At least three gunmen have attacked a main house of worship of the Ahmadi sect in eastern Pakistan, wounding six worshippers

5:23 AM on Friday, October 10

Israeli military says its forces have withdrawn to agreed deployment lines for first stage of Gaza ceasefire

4:08 AM on Friday, October 10

Houses of worship have faced various types of attacks throughout history, but such assaults are not relics of the past

4:06 AM on Friday, October 10

Statistically, attending a weekly worship service is a remarkably safe thing to do

3:58 AM on Friday, October 10

High-profile Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti not on Israel's published list of prisoners to be released

3:36 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are starting to walk north to return to their homes after the Israeli military said the ceasefire agreement with Hamas came into effect at noon local time and that troops were withdrawing to the agreed-upon deployment lines

3:08 AM on Friday, October 10

Pakistani officials say violent clashes have erupted between police and Islamists in the eastern city of Lahore

2:31 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday

11:13 PM on Thursday, October 9

11:06 PM on Thursday, October 9

Early on Sunday mornings, tolling bells call the faithful to worship at the three churches in Taybeh

10:56 PM on Thursday, October 9

South Korean investigators on Friday have indicted the 82-year-old leader of the Unification Church, Hak Ja Han, over allegations that she instructed church officials to bribe the wife of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker close to him

9:19 PM on Thursday, October 9

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved chaplain for Loyola Chicago's men's basketball team, has died at 106

8:58 AM on Thursday, October 9

Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it attacked a Buddhist festival held on the grounds of a school earlier this week

8:18 AM on Thursday, October 9

Palestinians in Gaza have welcomed the news of an agreement on the first phase of a peace plan between Israel and Hamas

1:24 AM on Thursday, October 9

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation

11:04 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Israel’s Cabinet has approved President Donald Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of all the remaining hostages held by Hamas, a key step toward ending a ruinous two-year war that has destabilized the Middle East

9:04 PM on Monday, October 6

Two years since the war in Gaza began, thousands of Palestinians there are looking for relatives who have gone missing in one of the most destructive conflicts of the past decades