Religion News

6:51 AM on Wednesday, September 17

For the Boy Scouts of America — renamed Scouting America — recent years have been challenging

3:46 AM on Wednesday, September 17

Sikh community leaders are urging New Delhi to lift a ban recently imposed on pilgrims traveling to Pakistan to visit the shrine of Guru Nanak, the founder of their faith

3:23 AM on Wednesday, September 17

The elderly leader of the Unification Church is the latest high-profile figure in South Korea to face an investigation in connection with criminal probes of former President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife

8:29 PM on Tuesday, September 16

The leader of the Unification Church has been questioned by investigators over allegations that the church bribed the wife of South Korea's jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker close to him in an effort to secure business favors

4:24 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, who died last month at age 89, was long celebrated as a champion of family values and parental discipline

2:06 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Pope Leo XIV has told the new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican that he was praying for Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated in Utah last week, as well as his wife and children

11:07 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Aid workers saved thousands of priceless archaeological artifacts in Gaza from destruction last week after Israel targeted the warehouse building in a strike

2:09 AM on Tuesday, September 16

A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

1:56 AM on Tuesday, September 16

The Israeli military says its expanded operation in Gaza City has begun

12:45 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Israeli forces have launched a new ground offensive in Gaza City, with heavy strikes reported across the area

11:14 PM on Monday, September 15

Israel has launched its offensive in Gaza City, vowing to overwhelm a city already in ruins from nearly two years of war

12:19 PM on Monday, September 15

The mother of James Foley, the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Syria in 2014, has told her story of loss and healing at a Vatican vigil attended by Pope Leo XIV

10:20 AM on Monday, September 15

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, is making his first visit in four years to the United States

8:05 AM on Monday, September 15

State Department says Rubio is heading to Qatar after meeting with Netanyahu in Israel

7:10 AM on Monday, September 15

Israel and the United States have shown a unified front amid international anger over Israel’s airstrikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar and its bombardment of Gaza City

12:13 AM on Monday, September 15

12:02 AM on Monday, September 15

There are more than 1,000 whitewashed stone chapels on the Greek island of Tinos owned and cared for by private families as they have in some cases for centuries

3:33 PM on Sunday, September 14

The mother of a 10-year-old girl killed during a mass shooting in a Catholic church in Minneapolis has remembered her as a sharp, curious and funny child who “didn’t water herself down.”

12:42 PM on Sunday, September 14

The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up is celebrating his 70th birthday with gospel music and a balloon release outside his boyhood home

11:50 AM on Sunday, September 14

Pope Leo XIV has honored hundreds of Christians who have been killed for their faith in the 21st century