Religion News

11:48 PM on Monday, March 16

Police in Nigeria say suspected suicide bombings have killed at least 23 people and wounded 108 others in Maiduguri

4:20 PM on Monday, March 16

The ex-wife of the gunman who drove a pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue told police that he was distraught and suicidal

1:57 PM on Monday, March 16

The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America is complete

12:56 PM on Monday, March 16

Pope Leo XIV has indicated growing concern with the next frontier in combatting abuses in the Catholic Church

10:36 AM on Monday, March 16

The Vatican has released details of Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming four-nation Africa tour

10:36 AM on Monday, March 16

Dutch prosecutors say four teens are suspected of terror-related offenses after an explosion outside a synagogue in the port city of Rotterdam

10:07 AM on Monday, March 16

Pope Leo XIV will accept the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia on July 3 in a remote broadcast from the Vatican

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

10:32 PM on Sunday, March 15

Explosions are sounding in Dubai after the United Arab Emirates reopened its airspace following a brief closure amid incoming attacks from Iran

9:34 PM on Sunday, March 15

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has pressured around seven countries to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open as fears of a global energy crisis persist and Iranian attacks and threats have choked off shipping in the vital waterway

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

9:44 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

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

9:24 AM on Monday, March 9