Religion News

8:45 AM on Saturday, August 30

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ office is urging the U.S. to reverse its decision to revoke his visa

1:49 PM on Friday, August 29

Eight people, including an Irish missionary and a 3-year-old child, who were kidnapped in July after gunmen stormed an orphanage in Haiti have been freed, the Irish government and relatives of the missionary said

8:42 AM on Friday, August 29

Gaza Health Ministry says more than 63,000 Palestinians killed as Israel-Hamas war drags on

8:39 AM on Friday, August 29

Most categories of crime have continued to fall in Minneapolis after a surge that followed the 2020 killing of George Floyd

7:55 AM on Friday, August 29

As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious

7:54 AM on Friday, August 29

Geoffrey Hinton is sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence

7:07 AM on Friday, August 29

Israel says Gaza City is now considered a dangerous combat zone as it begins the initial stages of a planned offensive that has drawn international condemnation

4:55 AM on Friday, August 29

The Gaza Health Ministry says the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 63,000 as Palestinians face the start of Israel’s expanded offensive in Gaza City

1:05 AM on Friday, August 29

Stories of bravery and heartache are emerging after the deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church during a Mass celebrating the start of the school year

8:27 PM on Thursday, August 28

Pope Leo XIV praises the virtue of listening before speaking as he receives an award from his Augustinian religious order in the United States

3:14 PM on Thursday, August 28

Shooter fired 116 rounds from a rifle into a Minneapolis church, police chief says

1:19 PM on Thursday, August 28

The director of the U.N. World Food Program says it's “very evident” after a visit to Gaza that there is not enough food and that mothers and children are starving

10:11 AM on Thursday, August 28

Israeli airstrikes have hit the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, targeting areas controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group

12:42 AM on Thursday, August 28

Investigators in Minneapolis say the shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded 18 other people inside a church was obsessed with the idea of killing defenseless children

11:58 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The pews of a Minneapolis church were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren paired with older ‘buddies’ listening to a prayer on their third day of the new school year

8:54 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The shooter who fired into a Minneapolis Catholic school’s church was quiet, often alone and seemed to resent school as an eighth grader there seven years ago