Religion News

11:42 AM on Sunday, March 29

10:55 AM on Sunday, March 29

Israeli police have blocked top Catholic leaders from entering Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a private Palm Sunday Mass

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

12:08 AM on Sunday, March 29

Pakistan’s foreign minister says Islamabad will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran

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

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

8:43 AM on Sunday, March 22