Religion News

5:03 PM on Friday, March 20

3:59 PM on Friday, March 20

Orthodox Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv has died at 97

3:00 PM on Friday, March 20

Texas has allowed several Islamic private schools into its new voucher program after families and school operators sued the state for religious discrimination

1:04 PM on Friday, March 20

10:46 AM on Friday, March 20

The Supreme Court is reviving a lawsuit from an evangelical Christian barred from demonstrating in Mississippi after authorities say he shouted insults at people over a loudspeaker

9:55 AM on Friday, March 20

Jehovah’s Witness leaders are modifying their rules on blood transfusions by letting members choose whether to store and reuse their own blood for medical care

9:14 AM on Friday, March 20

The Vatican has launched a campaign that urges Catholic institutions to divest from mining and align investments with church ecology teaching

7:08 AM on Friday, March 20

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brings Christian language into the Pentagon as the U.S. and Israel wage war against Iran

7:05 AM on Friday, March 20

More Democrats are openly running on faith, as progressive clergy and other religious candidates push back on the idea that Christianity belongs to the right

5:23 AM on Friday, March 20

Iranians abroad and in Tehran are approaching Persian new year with grief and fear as war and a crackdown cut them off from loved ones

4:49 AM on Friday, March 20

Israel has killed several top Iranian officials since the United States and Israel began strikes against Iran

12:06 AM on Friday, March 20

Clergy will be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in Minnesota

4:19 PM on Thursday, March 19

ABC has canceled its already filmed season of “The Bachelorette” starring Taylor Frankie Paul after a 2023 video surfaced

1:11 PM on Thursday, March 19

A quiet cloister behind a wooden door near Rome’s Pantheon offers calm meditation, while its frescoes reveal a turbulent past

1:02 PM on Thursday, March 19

A Michigan synagogue has posted photos on social media of major fire damage that occurred when a man drove a pickup truck into the building last week before killing himself

7:12 AM on Thursday, March 19

Pope Leo XIV is signaling strong endorsement of one of Pope Francis’ most controversial policies on marriage and divorce

4:15 AM on Thursday, March 19

The renewed war between Israel and the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group and the mass displacement because of the conflict are draining the joy from Ramadan and the run-up to the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr for many in Lebanon

1:54 AM on Thursday, March 19

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is supporting a proposal to rename César Chavez Day following stunning abuse allegations against the revered labor leader

1:26 AM on Thursday, March 19

Israel has pounded Tehran with airstrikes as Iranians mark Nowruz, or the Persian New Year

12:21 AM on Thursday, March 19

Iran intensified its attacks on Gulf oil and gas infrastructure Thursday in retaliation for an Israeli attack on a key Iranian gas field, dramatically raising the stakes in a war that's sending shock waves through the global economy