Religion News

9:16 PM on Friday, April 17

The pope’s planned visit to a Catholic chapel in Angola that was connected to the slave trade is seen as a symbolic moment by some Africans

10:11 AM on Friday, April 17

Notre Dame and Villanova will play a men’s and women’s basketball doubleheader to open the season in Rome, Italy

8:46 AM on Friday, April 17

8:00 AM on Friday, April 17

Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has opened the door for transgender adolescents to change their name and sex in official records

6:30 AM on Friday, April 17

1:53 AM on Friday, April 17

Pope Leo XIV is encouraging young people in Cameroon to resist the temptation to migrate and to stay at home and fight corruption

1:45 AM on Friday, April 17

U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister say the Strait of Hormuz is now fully open to commercial vessels

9:54 AM on Thursday, April 16

The Archbishop of Canterbury on Thursday expressed solidarity with Pope Leo XIV in calling for peace in the Middle East

8:46 AM on Thursday, April 16

8:38 AM on Thursday, April 16

Pope Leo XIV has led a peace meeting in Cameroon’s northwestern city of Bamenda, which is part of a region battered by a separatist violence

7:21 AM on Thursday, April 16

French Open prize money has increased by about 10% for an overall pot of 61.7 million euros ($72.1 million)

7:01 AM on Thursday, April 16

A new Gallup poll shows more young men in the U.S. now say religion is “very important” in their lives compared to young women

3:36 AM on Thursday, April 16

Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “handful of tyrants” exploiting Earth through war and greed

1:05 AM on Thursday, April 16

Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa has been marked by an unusual dynamic with U.S. President Donald Trump

1:03 AM on Thursday, April 16

A 10-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed on by Lebanon and Israel has started

12:14 AM on Thursday, April 16

A 10-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed on by Lebanon and Israel has started

9:38 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Human Rights Watch, in a detailed new report, says Chinese authorities are increasing pressure on underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official church while tightening surveillance and travel restrictions on all of China’s estimated 12 million Catholics

2:15 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Sudan is entering a fourth year of war marked by famine and massacres in what the United Nations calls an “abandoned crisis.”

1:32 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The leader of Iran’s joint military command has threatened to halt trade in the Gulf region if the U.S. does not lift its blockade of Iranian ports, while U.S. Central Command says no vessels have made it past U.S. naval forces during the first 48 hours of the blockade

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 15

A push by Republican leaders to promote Turning Point USA chapters in public high schools is stirring a free speech debate