Religion News

6:56 AM on Monday, March 9

Belgian officials say an overnight explosion outside a synagogue in Liege appears to be an antisemitic attack, and prosecutors are treating it seriously

11:59 PM on Sunday, March 8

The Iran war has begun its second week

6:26 PM on Sunday, March 8

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was named as his successor, had long been considered a contender to the post even before an Israeli strike killed his father and despite the fact he had never been elected or appointed to a government position

12:24 PM on Sunday, March 8

A retired Lebanese security officer has gone missing and his family says Israeli operatives kidnapped him to get information about a long-missing Israeli airman

1:56 AM on Sunday, March 8

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor

10:52 PM on Saturday, March 7

San Francisco has rung in the Year of the Fire Horse with its annual Chinese New Year parade with thousands cheering on hometown hero and Olympic champion Eileen Gu as its grand marshal

7:14 PM on Saturday, March 7

Authorities say a counterprotester demonstrating against a “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City” event Saturday lit and threw a device at the protesting crowd after someone from that group used pepper spray on the counterprotest

7:57 AM on Saturday, March 7

The long-held practice of faith leaders ministering to detained migrants has become far more contentious — and consequential — as detention numbers soar across the country during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown

7:10 AM on Saturday, March 7

Pope Leo XIV named a veteran Vatican diplomat as his new ambassador to the United States

1:09 AM on Saturday, March 7

Israel is renewing its assault on southern Lebanon, including targeting commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force in Beirut

11:11 PM on Friday, March 6

The travel chaos from the war in the Middle East has ensnared many of the Muslims who have converged on Saudi Arabia for the Umrah pilgrimage, leaving them stranded and scrambling to find other ways home

12:27 PM on Friday, March 6

A report by Rhode Island’s attorney general detailing decades of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy is giving survivors a sense of vindication while renewing calls for accountability and support

11:47 AM on Friday, March 6

UFO discussions have long been part of the milieu at the Conscious Life Expo, which convenes thousands of New Age spiritual seekers in Los Angeles each year

7:12 AM on Friday, March 6

Muslims across the United States are observing Ramadan under rising fears tied to immigration raids, anti-Muslim rhetoric, and war in the Middle East

6:51 AM on Friday, March 6

Hundreds of minority Shiites are rallying in Pakistan’s capital and elsewhere in the country to denounce the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a U.S.-Israeli campaign as the U.S. Embassy In Islamabad issued a security alert warning Americans of possible violence

3:26 AM on Friday, March 6

London police say four men have been arrested on suspicion of aiding Iran by spying on the Jewish community

1:41 AM on Friday, March 6

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, long has been considered a contender to the post of the country’s next paramount ruler even before his father's death

12:39 AM on Friday, March 6

Israeli airstrikes are pounding the capitals of Iran and Lebanon as the U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea

12:24 AM on Friday, March 6

One Israeli family lost three of their four children when a missile hit a shelter in a Beit Shemesh synagogue

10:10 PM on Thursday, March 5

Explosions are sending up plumes of smoke in Iran's capital city as the United States says the most intense bombing of the weeklong campaign is coming