Religion News

10:00 PM on Thursday, July 23

A man has been arrested after police said he stabbed two men in separate, nonfatal attacks on Manhattan’s Upper West Side

9:14 PM on Thursday, July 23

A replica of the House of the Virgin Mary in the Philippines welcomes devotees in Asia’s largest Catholic nation

2:40 PM on Thursday, July 23

The Catholic Church organization Caritas says hundreds of boxes of humanitarian aid from the U.S. are being distributed in two towns near Havana

1:10 PM on Thursday, July 23

A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas is speaking out for the first time about her arrest while walking to Mass

10:20 AM on Thursday, July 23

Mohammad Bashir has been sentenced to life in prison for plotting an attack on a British military academy

3:02 AM on Thursday, July 23

The U.S. military has announced it conducted a 13th night of strikes against Iran as clashes escalate over shipping routes

10:33 AM on Wednesday, July 22

The Vatican has confirmed that a church trial against a famous ex-Jesuit priest accused of spiritual and sexual abuse of women is ongoing

4:19 AM on Wednesday, July 22

The U.S. military has announced that it is conducting a 12th night of strikes against Iran as both sides increasingly target civilian infrastructure

4:10 AM on Wednesday, July 22

Lebanon's prime minister has visited a southern village as a U.S.-brokered agreement with Israel begins implementation

1:49 AM on Wednesday, July 22

A Palestinian family that was divided between Israel and Gaza was reunited this month after the eldest sister waged a two-year effort to bring her siblings to join her in Israel

2:54 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The lawyer for five women who say they were sexually, psychologically and spiritually abused by a once-famous Jesuit priest has penned a scathing denunciation of the Vatican’s secretive legal system

1:52 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The bagel in America is an immigrant story with a hole in the middle

3:44 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The U.S. military says it completed the 11th night of strikes on Iran as attacks across the Middle East overshadowed diplomatic efforts to salvage an interim ceasefire deal that has collapsed

1:03 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The Israeli military is rapidly constructing a large earthen barrier in the Gaza Strip, further entrenching the division of the tiny Palestinian enclave

8:15 AM on Monday, July 20

Experts have begun an excavation in Taiwan to recover the remains of Japanese soldiers from World War II

11:44 PM on Sunday, July 19

Iran has attacked a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, forcing its crew to abandon the ship

6:23 AM on Sunday, July 19

France has commemorated the Vel d’Hiv roundup, a mass arrest of Jews by French police in 1942

11:52 PM on Saturday, July 18

The United States has announced another death of a service member as it launches more airstrikes at Iran

9:12 AM on Saturday, July 18

The Associated Press has surveyed more than 1,000 Jewish adults in the U.S. to better understand their views on Israel’s military actions in Gaza, their opinions of the political parties and their experiences with prejudice

5:59 PM on Monday, July 13

A Wyoming state lawmaker is leading efforts to transfer Martin’s Cove, a site significant to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from public to church ownership