Religion News

5:47 AM on Monday, June 1

A secret bunker and an underground tunnel are among rare findings in a house in southern Poland used by Jews to hide from the Nazis

2:17 AM on Monday, June 1

Traveling to Spain in June and France in September, Pope Leo XIV will find traditionally Catholic but now staunchly secular countries with an abundance of historic churches but few people in the pews

11:22 AM on Sunday, May 31

Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian man at a barrier separating the West Bank from Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry

10:18 AM on Sunday, May 31

Israeli forces are now deeper inside Lebanon than they have been in over 25 years, despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire

2:01 AM on Sunday, May 31

It’s no coincidence that Hugo Rosas’ jersey designs ahead of the World Cup resemble some of Mexico’s most iconic decorations

12:01 AM on Sunday, May 31

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not attend an annual parade honoring Israel, breaking with a decades-long political custom because of his support of Palestinian rights

2:56 PM on Friday, May 29

Polis III Nona has assumed his duties as the new patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church

10:13 AM on Friday, May 29

U.S. President Donald Trump met with his advisers for about two hours but has not yet made a decision on whether to move forward with a deal to extend the Iran ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz

9:27 AM on Friday, May 29

A Chinese court has sentenced Shi Yongxin, former abbot of the country's famous Shaolin Temple, to 24 years in prison for misappropriation of funds and bribery

8:14 AM on Friday, May 29

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has cast Pope Leo XIV as a global ally on social justice, migration and reparations after meeting the Chicago-born pontiff at the Vatican

5:34 PM on Thursday, May 28

With the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to refugee agency services, religious congregations have been filling the gap

1:33 PM on Thursday, May 28

Dozens of Palestinians in Gaza City gathered for funeral prayers for 10 people killed in Israeli strikes

12:50 PM on Thursday, May 28

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson met with Pope Leo XIV, a lifelong White Sox fan, and gave him a Cubs hat

9:49 AM on Thursday, May 28

Yemen's former President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has died at 80

3:43 AM on Thursday, May 28

Israel's military says that the air force has carried out an airstrike on a southern suburb of Lebanon's capital

1:17 AM on Thursday, May 28

An Australian mother of four has been held in custody after she appeared in a court charged with traveling to Syria and joining the Islamic State group

11:22 PM on Wednesday, May 27

U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire by 60 days and start a new round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program

3:42 AM on Wednesday, May 27

Penpa Tsering has been sworn in for a second term as the president of Tibet’s government-in-exile based in India

3:27 AM on Monday, May 25

The United States and Iran appear to be closing in on a deal to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz

2:11 PM on Friday, May 22