Religion News

News > Religion News

RSS Feed

Shiite clerics carrying rifles march during the state-organized "Janfada," or "Sacrifice for Iran," military-style parade at Revolution Square in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Tanker hit by projectile as it enters the Strait of Hormuz, and other Mideast developments

6:44 AM on Monday, September 21

The British military says an “unknown projectile” struck a tanker as it entered the Strait of Hormuz

FILE - Pope Leo XIV celebrates a mass at the Basilica Sanctuary of the Mother of Good Counsel in Genazzano, central Italy, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope Leo XIV in France to find a secular country at odds with Catholic teaching on life

2:19 AM on Monday, September 21

Pope Leo XIV opens a four-day visit to France this weekend that is expected to touch on church teaching about the value of all human life

Man critically injured, police officer wounded in gunfire near Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur

12:21 AM on Monday, September 21

Authorties say a police officer and a man were wounded in an exchange of gunfire near a synagogue in Ontario as members of the Jewish community marked Yom Kippur

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends at Fenix, the FdI youth festival, in Rome, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (Valentina Stefanelli/LaPresse via AP)

Meloni plans to ban burqas and niqabs in Italian schools, and cap foreign students in classrooms

11:56 AM on Sunday, September 20

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she’ll soon introduce a measure to her government that would cap the number of foreign students in classrooms and ban face burqas and niqabs in schools

Supporters of Yemen's Houthi rebels raise their rifles during a rally in support of the group and to protest Saudi Arabia's accusation that the Houthis targeted Islam's holiest site of Mecca, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthis say they won't attack US vessels in Red Sea, and other Mideast developments

5:50 AM on Sunday, September 20

A senior Houthi official says the group has assured the Trump administration it won’t attack U.S. vessels in the Red Sea

BYU players leave the locker room for the first half of an NCAA college football game agianst Colorado State Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026, in Fort Collins, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado State apologizes to BYU for derogatory chants as 11th-ranked Cougars beat Rams 41-23

12:01 AM on Sunday, September 20

Colorado State issued an apology to BYU on Saturday night for derogatory chants from the stands

FILE - Rep. Abdullah Hammoud, D-Dearborn, speaks during a campaign rally in Dearborn, Mich., on March 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Michigan city defends itself against accusations of favoring Muslim holidays over other faiths

3:12 PM on Saturday, September 19

The city of Dearborn, Michigan, says its diversity and welcoming nature are to blame for a lawsuit accusing it of favoring Muslim holidays over the holidays of other religious faiths

FILE - Elor Azaria escorted by his mother arrives to Israeli military court on July 30, 2017, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, Pool, File)

Israel's president pardons a combat medic whose shooting of a Palestinian attacker caused debate

2:42 PM on Saturday, September 19

Israel's president has pardoned a combat medic who shot dead a badly wounded Palestinian attacker a decade ago

FILE - A photo of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Narges Mohammadi is projected onto the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet on Dec. 10. 2023. (Javad Parsa/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi tells the AP that Iranians paying the price for war and repression

10:30 AM on Saturday, September 19

Iran's most prominent human rights activist says Iranians are suffering seven months into the war and paying the price for the conflict

This undated photo provided by the Norton Simon Art Foundation on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, shows two oil paintings, "Adam and Eve," painted in 1530 by Lucas Cranach the Elder, on display in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif. (Gerard Vuilleumier/Norton Simon Art Foundation via AP)

New laws trigger a fresh legal fight over Nazi-looted art in Los Angeles and Auschwitz museums

7:14 AM on Saturday, September 19

Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims have filed lawsuits in California to reclaim Nazi-looted paintings from museums in Los Angeles and Poland

Supporters of Yemen's Houthi rebels shout slogans during a rally in support of the group and to protest Saudi Arabia's accusation that the Houthis targeted Islam's holiest site of Mecca, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Saudi Arabia says Houthis tried to attack its capital, and other Mideast developments

3:11 AM on Saturday, September 19

Saudi Arabia has confirmed that Yemen’s Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile

In this photo taken with a smartphone, mourners carry the casket of a victim who was killed in Friday's suicide bombing at a mosque, for a funeral in Kohat, in northwestern Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Maaz Awan)

Pakistani forces end 20-hour standoff with militants in the northwest

2:43 AM on Saturday, September 19

Pakistani security forces have ended a standoff with militants inside a police compound in northwestern Pakistan

Knife attack on Sikh trucker in Wyoming stirs fresh fears in community

7:17 PM on Friday, September 18

The stabbing of a Sikh truck driver at a Wyoming rest area has the U.S. Sikh community newly on edge

Jehovah’s Witnesses allow blood-derived products but keep ban on whole-blood transfusions

6:11 PM on Friday, September 18

The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their ban on the medical use of donated blood

Why the closing prayers of Judaism’s holiest holiday focus on repairing relationships with each other

8:38 AM on Friday, September 18

An Army soldier walks over rubble at the site of a bomb explosion at a mosque in Kohat, in northwestern Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Bombing at mosque near police offices in Pakistan kills at least 21

5:34 AM on Friday, September 18

A powerful bomb has exploded at a mosque near police offices in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 21 people and wounding at least 80

Protesters stage a rally against the possible deployment of South Korean troops to the Strait of Hormuz and a U.S. demand for the deployment, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. The banners read ''Oppose troop deployment.'' (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Iran claims it struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, and other Mideast developments

2:34 AM on Friday, September 18

Iran says it has struck an oil tanker trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz

Traditional Chinese coffin maker Goh Khuay Par, left, and his brother Goh Khuay Hou shape one of the wooden sections during the early stages of making a Mei Hua coffin at their workshop in Muar, Malaysia, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Two brothers carry on the traditional art of handmade Chinese coffins in Malaysia, in photos

9:23 PM on Thursday, September 17

Goh Khuay Hou applies red paint to a Mei Hua coffin at his family workshop in Muar, Malaysia, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

A traditional Chinese coffin maker in Malaysia preserves a fading family craft

9:15 PM on Thursday, September 17

Goh Khuay Par has spent more than five decades making traditional Chinese coffins by hand in Malaysia, carrying on a family craft passed down through three generations

Israeli settlers celebrate the inauguration of a newly built synagogue at the occupied West Bank outpost of Homesh, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israeli settlers, some armed, celebrate a new synagogue in the occupied West Bank, in photos

9:46 AM on Thursday, September 17

1 2 3 4 5 ... Last