Religion News

11:23 PM on Monday, March 23

Cambodia says fighting with Thailand has left the Preah Vihear temple badly damaged and too dangerous for visitors

2:48 PM on Monday, March 23

The Rev. Edward Flanagan, who founded the renowned Boys Town home for at-risk youth in Nebraska, is one step closer to possible sainthood

12:55 AM on Monday, March 23

U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. is talking with an Iranian leader and claims the Islamic Republic is eager for a deal to end the war

12:48 AM on Monday, March 23

Police in London are investigating a suspected antisemitic hate crime attack after four vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance service were set on fire

12:08 AM on Monday, March 23

President Donald Trump has paused military pressure on Iran by extending his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and delaying strikes on Iranian power plants for another five days

6:24 PM on Sunday, March 22

The Vatican’s Sistine Chapel hosted a concert debuting a composition focused on interactions with angels found throughout the Bible

4:00 PM on Sunday, March 22

It might seem impossible to get away from the constant barrage of news these days

11:19 AM on Sunday, March 22

Crowds of Syrians have rallied to protest authorities’ efforts to limit the sale and consumption of alcohol in Damascus

5:53 AM on Sunday, March 22

At least 10 Palestinians were injured Sunday night in attacks in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, who rampaged through nearby villages after holding a funeral for a settler killed in a car crash a day earlier

12:53 AM on Sunday, March 22

The United States and Iran are threatening to target critical infrastructure as the war in the Middle East puts lives and livelihoods at risk

12:24 AM on Sunday, March 22

President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets

6:38 AM on Saturday, March 21

Kurds are returning to Syria’s Afrin district and celebrating the Nowruz spring festival openly for the first time in years

1:18 AM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump on Saturday says the U.S. will “obliterate” Iranian power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours

12:08 AM on Saturday, March 21

Iran has struck two communities near Israel’s main nuclear research center, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured, hours after Tehran’s main nuclear enrichment site was hit as the war spun into a dangerous new direction

12:05 AM on Saturday, March 21

An Israeli strike has hit a Hezbollah-run health center in southern Lebanon and killed 12 medical workers, as Israel widens its campaign beyond fighters

8:43 PM on Friday, March 20

32-year-old Taylor Tomlinson’s fourth Netflix special “Prodigal Daughter” is all about the comedian’s religious trauma

4:30 AM on Friday, March 20

1:34 AM on Friday, March 20

Iran is threatening recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisting it is still building missiles three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East

12:33 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. military is deploying three more warships and roughly 2,500 more marines to the Middle East as Iran fires on Israel and energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states, sending oil and gas prices soaring

2:28 PM on Monday, March 16