Religion News

1:12 AM on Wednesday, December 17

In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the first pope

12:37 AM on Wednesday, December 17

12:31 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs

12:25 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs

9:41 PM on Tuesday, December 16

An accused gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre has been charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims

4:49 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian tobacco shop owner, has become a national hero in Australia, with an online fundraiser for him raising millions of dollars

4:48 PM on Tuesday, December 16

A renowned Brazilian Catholic priest has been ordered by Sao Paulo’s archbishop to stop broadcasting his services and avoid social media

3:17 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Members of a secretive California religious group have been charged with murder in the deaths of a man who disappeared in 2023 and a child who died in 2010

1:50 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to recover from torrential rains that have battered the enclave for days, flooding camps for the displaced, collapsing buildings already badly damaged in the two-year war and leaving at least 12 dead, including a two-week-old baby

11:04 AM on Tuesday, December 16

A leading Muslim civil rights group in the U_S_ has sued Florida Gov_ Ron DeSantis over his order labeling it a “foreign terrorist organization.”

1:45 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Pakistani officials say an anti-terrorism court has sentenced a senior leader of a banned Islamist party to 35 years in prison for inciting violence

10:01 PM on Monday, December 15

Australia is preparing for the funerals of some of the victims of an antisemitic mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach

7:47 PM on Monday, December 15

Tulane quarterback Jake Retzlaff recalls being “devastated” when it became clear last spring that he would be unable to play his final season of college football at BYU

2:00 PM on Monday, December 15

The death toll from last week's building collapse at a Hindu temple site in South Africa has risen to five

1:53 PM on Monday, December 15

Leading Jewish groups in the United States are urging all Jewish organizations to ratchet up security at public events following the weekend's mass shooting attack on a Hanukkah celebration on a beach in Australia

1:11 PM on Monday, December 15

The Vatican has unveiled its Nativity scene and lit the towering Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square

9:18 AM on Monday, December 15

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the antisemitic violence behind the Sydney Hanukkah massacre

10:23 AM on Sunday, December 14

Hamas has confirmed the death of a top commander in Gaza, a day after Israel said it had killed Raed Saad in a strike outside Gaza City

4:32 AM on Sunday, December 14

A child is one of at least 15 people killed in an attack in Australia at one of the world’s most famous beaches

12:21 AM on Friday, December 12

Nativity scenes at some churches are sparking fierce debates