Religion News

2:28 PM on Sunday, January 25

Israel says its military is conducting a large-scale operation to locate the last hostage in Gaza

8:33 AM on Sunday, January 25

American religious history is rife with protest movements

2:23 PM on Saturday, January 24

The father of a teenage boy killed in Gaza implored him to “Get up” after a hospital said the boy died in an Israeli strike

10:35 AM on Saturday, January 24

Top U.S. envoys have met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to advance the ceasefire in Gaza

7:47 AM on Friday, January 23

Nigeria's government says that the U.S. has pledged to deliver outstanding military equipment purchased by the country over the past five years

5:34 AM on Friday, January 23

Syria's government forces have taken control of a prison housing Islamic State group members in the country's north

4:28 AM on Friday, January 23

Iran’s top prosecutor says Trump's claim that Tehran halted execution of 800 protest prisoners ‘is completely false’

1:03 AM on Friday, January 23

Police have arrested about 100 clergy who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport

8:56 PM on Thursday, January 22

Iran’s top prosecutor has called U_S_ President Donald Trump’s about halting the hangings of 800 detained protesters “completely false.”

1:02 PM on Thursday, January 22

Magistrate judge rejects prosecutors' bid to charge journalist Don Lemon after Minnesota church protest, AP source says

11:00 AM on Thursday, January 22

The gunmen who abducted more than 150 church worshippers in Nigeria’s conflict-hit northwest are demanding 17 motorcycles as ransom from families

9:54 AM on Thursday, January 22

Desperate Palestinians at a garbage dump in a Gaza neighborhood are digging with their bare hands for plastic items to burn to keep warm in the cold and damp winter in the enclave, battered by two years of the Israel-Hamas war

9:41 AM on Thursday, January 22

Attorney General Pam Bondi says a woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church has been arrested

8:12 AM on Thursday, January 22

Iraq has asked that Islamic State group prisoners be moved from northeast Syria to its detention centers

7:01 AM on Thursday, January 22

Workers have been installing new gargoyles on the facade of the Catholic cathedral in Covington, Kentucky, in January as they near the completion of a major renovation

10:10 AM on Wednesday, January 21

Surveys by the Pew Research Center find the Catholic population in Latin American countries has shrunk over the last decade

1:42 AM on Wednesday, January 21

Divisions have emerged over U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace as its ambitions have grown beyond Gaza

1:37 AM on Wednesday, January 21

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel agrees to join Trump’s Board of Peace

1:56 PM on Tuesday, January 20

Recent fighting between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria has highlighted the detention facilities holding Islamic State group members

3:13 AM on Tuesday, January 20

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed Parliament's passing anti-hate speech and gun laws following a deadly shooting at a Jewish festival on Sydney's Bondi Beach last month