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Father Isaac serves lentils for the midday meal at the Monastery of St. Augustine and Seraphim of Sarov in the village of Trikorfo, about 236 kilometers (147 miles) northwest of Athens, Friday, March 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Want to renew healthy eating habits? Greek monks have a spring playbook

12:03 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Across Greece and in Orthodox communities around the world, a centuries-old Lenten fast offers a modern lesson in diet and discipline

FILE - University of Pennsylvania signage is seen in Philadelphia, May 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Judge says Penn must turn over information about Jewish employees in US discrimination probe

3:46 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A federal judge has ordered the University of Pennsylvania to hand over records about Jewish employees on campus to a federal agency as part of an investigation into antisemitic discrimination

Pope Leo XIV talks to journalists as he leaves his residence in Castel Gandolfo, on the outskirts of Rome, to return to the Vatican, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo XIV urges an Easter end to the US-Israel war on Iran, calling for dialogue

3:05 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Pope Leo XIV expressed hope that the U.S.-Israel war on Iran could end before Easter

This photo provided by the San Francisco Zen Center shows the remote Tassajara Mountain Zen Center, a Buddhist meditation hall, burning in a fire, Thursday, March 26, 2026, in central California. (San Francisco Zen Center via AP)

Monthslong meditation on impermanence at a remote California Zen retreat meets a real-life fire

2:10 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A fire destroyed the main meditation hall at Tassajara Mountain Zen Center in Central California, as monks neared the end of a long retreat

FILE - Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris is escorted out of the building after pleading guilty to lewd and indecent acts with a child at the Osage County Courthouse in Pawhuska, Okla., Oct. 2, 2025. (Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris is free after 6 months in an Oklahoma jail for child sex abuse

11:34 AM on Tuesday, March 31

The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an Oklahoma woman in the 1980s has been released from an Oklahoma jail

FILE - The Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids

9:08 AM on Tuesday, March 31

The Supreme Court has ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that banned the discredited practice

This book cover image released by HarperCollins shows "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith" by JD Vance. (HarperCollins via AP)

JD Vance has a new book about his religious faith, 'Communion,' coming out later this spring

8:14 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Vice President JD Vance has a new book about his religious faith and adult conversion to Catholicism

Ginette Kolinka, a 101-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, smiles after a meeting with pupils in a Paris-region high school in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, outside Paris, France, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

With Spielberg's help, a 101-year-old Auschwitz survivor has become a mighty warrior against hate

3:24 AM on Tuesday, March 31

A 101-year-old survivor of Auschwitz has, with help from Steven Spielberg, become a mighty warrior against antisemitism in France

A man inspect the wreckage of an Iranian missile that landed near the West Bank village of Marda, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Trump lashes out at allies, says securing the Strait of Hormuz is 'not for us'

12:44 AM on Tuesday, March 31

President Donald Trump lashed out at allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U.S. war effort against Iran

From left, Luis Arguello, the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Angel Gabilondo, the Ombudsman and Felix Bolanos the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with Parliament after the signing of an agreement to provide redress to victims of time-barred abuse in Madrid, Spain, Monday, March 30, 2026. (Alberto Ortega/Europa Press via AP)

Spanish bishops and government sign deal for compensation of church sexual abuse victims

12:30 PM on Monday, March 30

Spain’s Catholic bishops and the government have taken another step toward compensating victims of sexual abuse by clergy members who have died or whose possible crimes are too old to be prosecuted

Catholics take part in a Holy Week procession in Panama City's Casco Viejo, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Photos show Christians marking Holy Week across the world

12:28 PM on Monday, March 30

Shiite grief over attacks on Iran’s sacred cities has deep historical roots

7:39 AM on Monday, March 30

FILE - Cantor Ruth Berman Harris, left, who leads the congregation in lieu of a full-time rabbi, lights candles to celebrate Seder with congregants of the 104-year-old Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center which burned down in the Jan. 2025 Eaton fire, gathered for a Passover at the First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, Calif. on Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

In the Passover ritual, Jews worldwide reenact an ancient story of liberation

6:10 AM on Monday, March 30

Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over the course of a week each spring

In this undated handout photo from Professor Wendy James Estate, from left, Douglas H. Johnson, Husein Mar, Rev. Gabriel Gai Riam and Philip Lyon Roussel hold the sacred stick also known as Ngundeng Bong's dang. (AP Photo/Wendy James Estate)

In South Sudan, a prophet's sacred stick helps fuel a violent struggle for political power

1:02 AM on Monday, March 30

In a tribal battle fought over a century ago, according to oral history, a prophet in South Sudan raised his stick and summoned a thunderbolt that killed a crowd of fighters from a rival tribe

A portrait of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, is seen, as smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, March 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Trump again threatens widespread destruction in Iran if a deal is not reached 'shortly'

12:50 AM on Monday, March 30

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, potentially including desalination plants that supply drinking water

A penitent of the 'Pollinita' brotherhood, dressed in a typical Apostle costume, holds an image symbolizing the apostles during the Holy Week procession in Cabra, southern Spain, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain begins Holy Week with processions, palm branches and familiar faces

10:48 AM on Sunday, March 29

Actor Antonio Banderas has joined the crowds in dozens of Palm Sunday processions, marking the official start of Holy Week in Spain

In this photo released by the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from left, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan walk prior to their meeting to discuss the Middle East war, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

Pakistan says it will host US-Iran talks, while Iran warns US ground troops would be 'set on fire'

11:08 PM on Saturday, March 28

Pakistan’s foreign minister says Islamabad will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran

People gather outside a hospital where Noelia Castillo, a young Spanish woman, died after winning a long court fight for her right to euthanasia, in Sant Pere de Ribes, Spain, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Lorena Sopena/Europa Press via AP)

25-year-old Noelia Castillo dies by legal euthanasia in case that drew national spotlight in Spain

2:05 PM on Thursday, March 26

A young Spanish woman died in Barcelona after winning a long court fight for her euthanasia right

On Passover, some Sephardic Jews revisit not only the story of their ancestors, but also their Ladino language

8:05 AM on Wednesday, March 25

FILE - Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, speaks during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

What we know about Iran's parliamentary speaker Qalibaf

4:39 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Iran's parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has emerged as a possible U.S. contact for talks even as the Iranian leadership remains under fire during the war

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