Religion News

7:59 AM on Sunday, March 29

Dark matter and dark energy are mysteries that have confounded scientists for decades, even though they comprise 95% of the universe's mass

4:42 AM on Sunday, March 29

Pope Leo XIV says no one can use God to justify war and he's praying especially for Christians in the Middle East

4:28 AM on Sunday, March 29

Jerusalem’s holiest places sit empty as missile fire disrupts Passover and Easter

8:39 AM on Saturday, March 28

Sectarian violence has hit a Christian town in central Syria after an argument spilled into a wider attack

4:34 AM on Saturday, March 28

Pope Leo XIV has urged the people of Monaco to use their Catholic faith and wealth for good

3:50 AM on Saturday, March 28

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have entered the monthlong war in the Middle East and claimed they launched missiles toward Israel

11:34 AM on Friday, March 27

Hamas is weighing a new proposal to give up its weapons in Gaza, a major concession that would clear the way for the U.S. plan for rebuilding the war-ravaged territory

7:00 AM on Friday, March 27

5:54 AM on Friday, March 27

A U.N. inquiry urges the Syrian government to investigate senior security officials involved in deadly sectarian clashes in Sweida province last summer

2:15 AM on Friday, March 27

Israel’s military says it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward Israel for the first time

1:19 AM on Friday, March 27

Pope Leo XIV is going to the principality of Monaco for a one-day trip

12:11 AM on Friday, March 27

Iran has kept firing missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab nation, including a strike Friday at a military base in Saudi Arabia that U.S. officials said wounded at least 10 U.S. service members, two of them seriously

1:55 PM on Thursday, March 26

Under Denver Archbishop James Francis Stafford and his successors, Charles Chaput and Samuel Aquila, Denver became a national hub for some of the most influential conservative Catholic evangelizing ministries

8:01 AM on Thursday, March 26

After more than a decade living with chronic kidney failure, Mexican activist Samara Martínez has turned her personal struggle into a campaign to decriminalize euthanasia

6:05 AM on Thursday, March 26

Israel is trading fire with Hezbollah, calling for mass evacuations and sending ground troops deeper into Lebanon

4:50 AM on Thursday, March 26

British police say two men arrested in connection with an arson attack that destroyed four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity have been released on bail as authorities continue to investigate the suspected antisemitic hate crime

11:53 PM on Wednesday, March 25

President Donald Trump has delayed a threatened U.S. strike on Iran’s energy infrastructure and extended a deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz until April 6

3:58 PM on Wednesday, March 25

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has hosted a monthly Christian prayer and worship service at the Pentagon, the first since the Iran war began

12:42 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Iran has dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East, issuing its own counterproposal instead, as it launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries

8:43 AM on Sunday, March 22