Religion News

11:06 AM on Thursday, December 4

CBS News says it will host a prime-time “town hall” event next week with Erika Kirk, widow of assassinated activist Charlie Kirk

10:28 AM on Thursday, December 4

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons

10:09 AM on Thursday, December 4

Pope Leo XIV's first full-length U.S. book is set to release next winter

6:27 AM on Thursday, December 4

A Lithuanian court has convicted the leader of one of the parties in the country’s coalition government for making antisemitic comments and fined him 5,000 euros or about $5,800

7:23 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been lit up in a festive ceremony in midtown Manhattan

5:37 PM on Wednesday, December 3

A former missionary with an Ohio-based ministry has been indicted on federal charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with four different minors in Haiti over multiple years

5:23 PM on Wednesday, December 3

A University of Oklahoma instructor has been placed on leave after a student complained about receiving a failing grade on a paper

1:45 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The State Department says the United States will restrict visas for Nigerians and their families involved in mass killings and violence against Christians in the West African country

11:46 AM on Wednesday, December 3

Israel has announced plans to reopen the Rafah border crossing in the coming days, allowing Palestinians to leave Gaza

11:39 AM on Wednesday, December 3

Lebanon’s prime minister says his country is “far from” diplomatic normalization or economic relations with Israel

8:27 AM on Wednesday, December 3

7:02 AM on Wednesday, December 3

1:29 AM on Wednesday, December 3

Israel says it launched an airstrike in southern Gaza in retaliation for an attack by militants earlier in the day that wounded five Israeli soldiers

7:32 PM on Tuesday, December 2

The West Virginia Supreme Court has paused a ruling that allowed parents to use religious beliefs to opt out of required school vaccines for their children

4:16 PM on Tuesday, December 2

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many American mothers lost faith in the institutions that once shaped their lives

11:35 AM on Tuesday, December 2

Pope Leo XIV has shared his thoughts during the conclave that elected him, saying he resigned himself to the inevitable and put the rest in God’s hands

2:01 AM on Tuesday, December 2

Israel says it has received remains handed over by Palestinian militants in Gaza to the Red Cross

11:54 PM on Monday, December 1

Pope Leo XIV has offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he wrapped up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon

11:38 PM on Monday, December 1

Colombia says it sent 26 members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor to the United States after determining that the rights of some of the children in the group were at risk

12:55 PM on Thursday, November 27