Religion News

12:02 AM on Wednesday, September 24

A debate has been sparked among Black pastors who are trying to square a heroic view of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist who was gunned down in Utah this month, with the insulting statements about people of color that were key to his political activism

11:15 PM on Tuesday, September 23

6:00 PM on Tuesday, September 23

A South African man's prophecy about the Rapture has gone viral

5:12 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Mexican megachurch leader Naasón Joaquín García has made his first appearance in a New York federal court, pleading not guilty to sex trafficking charges

5:09 PM on Tuesday, September 23

The Archdiocese of Chicago plans to honor Sen. Dick Durbin with a lifetime achievement award, sparking controversy over his support for abortion rights

11:13 AM on Tuesday, September 23

Myanmar’s Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival is a major Buddhist celebration, but recent challenges have dampened its spirit

12:11 AM on Tuesday, September 23

12:09 AM on Tuesday, September 23

Every two decades for the last 1,300 years, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine of Ise Jingu has been knocked down and rebuilt from scratch

12:05 AM on Tuesday, September 23

A growing number of experts have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies

12:02 AM on Tuesday, September 23

Each generation, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a massive, $390 million demolition and construction job that takes about nine years

3:22 PM on Monday, September 22

With Vice President JD Vance calling Charlie Kirk “a martyr for Christianity,” some Kirk admirers suggest his assassination will galvanize throngs of people — notably young conservatives — to become more engaged in evangelical and Catholic churches

2:28 PM on Monday, September 22

The 82-year-old leader of the Unification Church has been arrested in an investigation into allegations that the church bribed the wife of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker

1:35 PM on Monday, September 22

A federal appeals court has ruled that a Vermont Christian school can participate in the state's sports league

8:58 AM on Monday, September 22

Motorcycle rallies often bring to mind beer and rock 'n' roll

8:48 AM on Monday, September 22

Defense lawyers in the Holy See’s “trial of the century” have asked the Vatican prosecutor to recuse himself from the appeals trial

4:58 AM on Monday, September 22

Israeli forces are showing no signs of relenting on their new ground offensive in Gaza City as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly and more countries prepare to join the surge of nations recognizing a Palestinian state

11:26 AM on Sunday, September 21

France and Saudi Arabia hope to use this year’s United Nations General Assembly and the increasingly horrific war in the Gaza Strip to inject new urgency into the quest for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

4:21 AM on Sunday, September 21

The U.K., Australia and Canada have formally recognized a Palestinian state, prompting an angry response from Israel

12:01 AM on Sunday, September 21

President Donald Trump and his supporters have paid tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a memorial service in Arizona

10:14 AM on Tuesday, September 9

After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world has roared back to life at a monastery in Jerusalem’s Old City