Religion News

1:45 AM on Saturday, September 26

Inside a Quaker meeting house in western Kenya, loud music complete with modern instruments can be heard from a distance

12:08 AM on Saturday, September 26

Israeli settlers have intensified efforts to seize natural springs and heritage sites in the occupied West Bank

5:59 PM on Friday, September 25

9:04 AM on Friday, September 25

Nepal's festival season has started with the weeklong celebrations of Indra Jatra as the country struggles to recover from devastating flooding

7:00 AM on Friday, September 25

Senator Ted Cruz targeted Muslim Americans at the recent Republican midterm convention, declaring that Sharia law “has no place in America.”

5:55 AM on Friday, September 25

France is working on a draft United Nations Security Council resolution backing freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz

1:28 AM on Friday, September 25

The U.S.-created Board of Peace has said the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees has no place in Gaza

12:12 AM on Friday, September 25

Pope Leo XIV has warned that a “paradise of machines” could undermine humanity

3:32 PM on Thursday, September 24

Police say a former Canadian soldier who opened fire on a police officer outside an Ontario synagogue during Yom Kippur shouted “you’re going to die for the Jews” moments before shooting

2:58 PM on Thursday, September 24

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is accusing Mayor Zohran Mamdani of endangering Jewish New Yorkers with his criticism of Israel’s military actions in Gaza

1:50 PM on Thursday, September 24

Across the country, Jewish congregations, schools and nonprofit organizations have embraced mindfulness meditation with a zeal of the recently converted

1:10 PM on Thursday, September 24

Italy’s conservative government on Thursday has approved a school decree limiting classrooms to 30% of students with insufficient Italian-language skills and banning full-face Islamic veils, including burqas and niqabs

10:15 AM on Thursday, September 24

Allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza are not only false but “the biggest lie of the century" — so says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

8:45 AM on Thursday, September 24

8:12 AM on Thursday, September 24

Authorities in Poland say a stabbing at a Catholic convent has left one person dead and four others wounded in southeastern Poland

6:12 AM on Thursday, September 24

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly, calling his decision to attack Iran as “one of the easiest” he's ever made and allegations of genocide in Gaza “the biggest lie of the century.”

6:01 AM on Thursday, September 24

Tens of thousands of Catholic worshippers gathered in St. Louis for the beatification ceremony of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a pioneer of religious broadcasting

12:20 AM on Thursday, September 24

Pope Leo XIV plans to visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France on Sunday

2:16 AM on Wednesday, September 23

Pope Leo XIV’s trip to France will highlight the country's strict secularism, known as “laïcité.”

1:35 PM on Tuesday, September 22

About 2,000 people have sought reparations from a French body addressing church abuse