Religion News

6:24 PM on Sunday, March 22

The Vatican’s Sistine Chapel hosted a concert debuting a composition focused on interactions with angels found throughout the Bible

11:19 AM on Sunday, March 22

Crowds of Syrians have rallied to protest authorities’ efforts to limit the sale and consumption of alcohol in Damascus

5:53 AM on Sunday, March 22

At least 10 Palestinians were injured Sunday night in attacks in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, who rampaged through nearby villages after holding a funeral for a settler killed in a car crash a day earlier

12:53 AM on Sunday, March 22

The United States and Iran are threatening to target critical infrastructure as the war in the Middle East puts lives and livelihoods at risk

6:38 AM on Saturday, March 21

Kurds are returning to Syria’s Afrin district and celebrating the Nowruz spring festival openly for the first time in years

1:18 AM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump on Saturday says the U.S. will “obliterate” Iranian power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours

12:08 AM on Saturday, March 21

Iran has struck two communities near Israel’s main nuclear research center, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured, hours after Tehran’s main nuclear enrichment site was hit as the war spun into a dangerous new direction

12:05 AM on Saturday, March 21

An Israeli strike has hit a Hezbollah-run health center in southern Lebanon and killed 12 medical workers, as Israel widens its campaign beyond fighters

8:43 PM on Friday, March 20

32-year-old Taylor Tomlinson’s fourth Netflix special “Prodigal Daughter” is all about the comedian’s religious trauma

5:03 PM on Friday, March 20

3:59 PM on Friday, March 20

Orthodox Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv has died at 97

3:00 PM on Friday, March 20

Texas has allowed several Islamic private schools into its new voucher program after families and school operators sued the state for religious discrimination

1:04 PM on Friday, March 20

10:46 AM on Friday, March 20

The Supreme Court is reviving a lawsuit from an evangelical Christian barred from demonstrating in Mississippi after authorities say he shouted insults at people over a loudspeaker

5:23 AM on Friday, March 20

Iranians abroad and in Tehran are approaching Persian new year with grief and fear as war and a crackdown cut them off from loved ones

4:30 AM on Friday, March 20

1:34 AM on Friday, March 20

Iran is threatening recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisting it is still building missiles three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East

12:33 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. military is deploying three more warships and roughly 2,500 more marines to the Middle East as Iran fires on Israel and energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states, sending oil and gas prices soaring

12:06 AM on Friday, March 20

Clergy will be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in Minnesota

2:28 PM on Monday, March 16