Religion News

7:20 PM on Monday, March 16

The ex-wife of the gunman who drove a pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue told police that he was distraught and suicidal

4:57 PM on Monday, March 16

The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America is complete

3:56 PM on Monday, March 16

Pope Leo XIV has indicated growing concern with the next frontier in combatting abuses in the Catholic Church

1:36 PM on Monday, March 16

The Vatican has released details of Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming four-nation Africa tour

1:36 PM on Monday, March 16

Dutch prosecutors say four teens are suspected of terror-related offenses after an explosion outside a synagogue in the port city of Rotterdam

1:07 PM on Monday, March 16

Pope Leo XIV will accept the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia on July 3 in a remote broadcast from the Vatican

7:42 AM on Monday, March 16

A crowded welfare payment line in eastern Pakistan has turned deadly after a shop roof collapsed, killing at least eight women

1:32 AM on Monday, March 16

Explosions are sounding in Dubai after the United Arab Emirates reopened its airspace following a brief closure amid incoming attacks from Iran

12:34 AM on Monday, March 16

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has pressured around seven countries to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open as fears of a global energy crisis persist and Iranian attacks and threats have choked off shipping in the vital waterway

12:01 AM on Monday, March 16

France is ramping up its military push in the Middle East as President Emmanuel Macron calls the effort strictly defensive

8:23 AM on Sunday, March 15

Pope Leo XIV has urged a ceasefire in the Middle East and called on leaders in the Iran war to reopen talks

6:05 AM on Sunday, March 15

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are staying on the sidelines as the Iran war expands

4:15 AM on Sunday, March 15

Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people, including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said

2:17 AM on Sunday, March 15

A bus carrying Indian pilgrims has slipped off a mountain road in central Nepal, killing seven people and injuring nine others

12:33 AM on Sunday, March 15

President Donald Trump says he has “demanded” that about seven countries heavily reliant on Middle East oil join a coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz

12:20 AM on Sunday, March 15

Gulf countries have reported new Iranian attacks as the war in the Middle East entered its third week

12:44 AM on Saturday, March 14

Iran has threatened for the first time to attack civilian infrastructure in a neighboring country, urging people to evacuate three major ports in the United Arab Emirates it claimed the U.S. military was using to launch strikes on Iran

12:01 AM on Saturday, March 14

The Michigan synagogue that came under attack this week when an armed man drove his car into the building had for months been strengthening its security apparatus

8:53 PM on Friday, March 13

Thailand’s “Death Fest” brings people together to talk openly about death and plan for it in practical ways

12:24 PM on Monday, March 9