Religion News

6:19 PM on Wednesday, July 29

At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier and Baptist minister founded a school in Raleigh, North Carolina, to provide formerly enslaved people with religious literacy

1:33 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Austria's Grassmayr Bell Foundry has been casting massive bells for churches and cathedrals around the globe for more than 400 years

1:16 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Right-wing Israeli activists are ramping up their fringe campaign to establish Jewish settlements inside Syria by staging frequent incursions across the border

11:14 PM on Tuesday, July 28

5:52 PM on Tuesday, July 28

The U.S. military says it successfully intercepted an Iranian missile barrage and worked with Saudi Arabia’s forces to strike sites in Iraq that Tehran-backed militias have used to launch attacks in recent days

6:57 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Authorities in Bosnia are investigating the desecration of a Virgin Mary statue and a shrine damaged by fire in a southern village

5:06 AM on Tuesday, July 28

5:43 PM on Monday, July 27

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission

5:42 AM on Monday, July 27

Mediators have made progress in efforts to bring the United States and Iran back to negotiations and prevent an all-out war in the Middle East

10:28 AM on Sunday, July 26

The United States has not attacked Iran for a second day, and Tehran says it has also halted attacks

11:17 AM on Saturday, July 25

Israel's military says it has detained over 70 suspects across the occupied West Bank following violence that left two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinian villagers dead there

6:01 PM on Friday, July 24

A suspect in two stabbings on New York City streets has been arrested on attempted murder and other charges

5:38 AM on Friday, July 24

A United Nations committee has inscribed a major archaeological site in the West Bank and a set of castles in southern Lebanon as World Heritage sites

1:03 AM on Friday, July 24

Estonia's Kirikla Orthodox Monastery is the first of its kind to be established by the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church in decades

12:39 AM on Friday, July 24

The U.S. military says it has fired on a merchant vessel attempting to breach its blockade of Iranian ports, while Iran targeted American strongholds around the Persian Gulf

12:07 AM on Friday, July 24

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers is retiring from the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh

12:06 AM on Friday, July 24

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers is retiring from Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, which he led through the aftermath of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history

9:00 PM on Thursday, July 23

Chinese pastor Ezra Jin Mingri recounts how his fears turned to uncertainty and then joy after he was unexpectedly released from detention in China

3:02 AM on Thursday, July 23

The U.S. military has announced it conducted a 13th night of strikes against Iran as clashes escalate over shipping routes

7:44 AM on Friday, July 17