Religion News

1:09 PM on Thursday, April 23

Authorities have arrested two young people in an alleged plot to attack a Texas synagogue

7:24 AM on Thursday, April 23

6:54 AM on Thursday, April 23

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines to choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz

6:04 AM on Thursday, April 23

Cricket is set to return to the Olympics in 2028

5:07 AM on Thursday, April 23

Pope Leo XIV is urging the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war

3:41 AM on Thursday, April 23

President Donald Trump says Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group by three weeks after talks at the White House

1:31 AM on Thursday, April 23

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” Iranian small boats choking the Strait of Hormuz

3:39 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Court rulings are bolstering mandates to display the Ten Commandments in public schools in the U.S. as supporters push to expand the role of religion in classrooms

11:01 AM on Wednesday, April 22

People who have fled abuses in Equatorial Guinea and are taking refuge elsewhere fear that the pope's visit to the Central African country could launder the image of Africa's longest-serving ruler

9:17 AM on Wednesday, April 22

A South Korean national has been arrested in Tokyo for allegedly obstructing a spring festival at Yasukuni Shrine

8:48 AM on Wednesday, April 22

French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud says he has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria for his book “Houris.”

7:20 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Xaneri Merino, a transgender woman and artisan from southern Mexico, was once punished for weaving in her Indigenous community, where men are largely barred from weaving

1:57 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Pope Leo XIV is urging Equatorial Guineans to work for freedom, justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged.”

12:48 AM on Wednesday, April 22

U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States was indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran as a new round of peace talks was on hold

12:39 AM on Wednesday, April 22

The U.S. military hsa seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil

6:24 PM on Tuesday, April 21

A U.S. appeals court says Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms

11:44 AM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump has read a notable Bible passage in a livestreamed marathon

11:41 PM on Monday, April 20

President Donald Trump says he is extending the ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request while awaiting a “unified proposal” from Tehran, even as the U.S. military maintains its blockade of Iranian ports

4:15 PM on Wednesday, April 15

12:08 AM on Friday, April 10

Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa was so dizzying in its complexity that it recalls some of the early globe-trotting odysseys of St. John Paul II