Religion News

9:09 PM on Monday, August 31

The Hungry Ghost Festival is observed during the seventh month of the lunar calendar, drawing on Buddhist, Taoist and folk religious beliefs about the relationship between the living and the dead

4:12 PM on Monday, August 31

9:09 AM on Monday, August 31

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is canceling its planned exhibit honoring British designer John Galliano

7:21 AM on Monday, August 31

The United Arab Emirates' Defense Ministry says that an Iranian drone has been intercepted over the UAE’s territorial waters

2:47 AM on Monday, August 31

The United Arab Emirates’ air force has intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters

1:56 AM on Monday, August 31

A court in Seoul, South Korea, has sentenced Unification Church leader Hak Ja Han to two years in prison

12:07 AM on Monday, August 31

Vice President JD Vance has spoken at the annual gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition

1:28 PM on Sunday, August 30

Hundreds of mourners have gathered at a church near Haiti’s capital for the funeral of four victims of a brutal gang attack

8:45 AM on Sunday, August 30

The devastating flash floods in the Himalayan region swept so many people downstream that authorities in one Nepalese district have begun burying bodies in temporary graves before they can be identified

7:57 AM on Sunday, August 30

Iran’s supreme leader has called for Muslim countries to stand together against Israel and the United States

12:37 AM on Sunday, August 30

Authorities in Nepal are warning of potential fresh flooding as water levels rise in the Bhotekoshi River

6:02 PM on Saturday, August 29

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has apologized to the state's Jewish Democratic Caucus

11:52 AM on Saturday, August 29

Israel’s prime minister has spoken out after weeks of settler violence in the occupied West Bank and condemned the criminal actions of a “handful of rioters.”

12:02 AM on Saturday, August 29

Poor weather temporarily hampered aerial rescue operations in Nepal as the search for thousands of missing people in areas devastated by catastrophic flash floods along the border with China entered its fourth day

1:33 PM on Friday, August 28

Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish scholar of Christian Scriptures, has faced antisemitic backlash after being elected the first Jewish president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America

11:40 AM on Friday, August 28

Four men have pleaded guilty to destroying four Jewish community ambulances in an arson attack in north London earlier this year that many said was a direct result of the start of the Iran war

8:02 AM on Friday, August 28

Mohan Bhagwat, head of the Hindu nationalist group RSS, is set to speak in New York City on Saturday

6:52 AM on Friday, August 28

Israeli airstrikes have killed five people in Gaza and three in the West Bank, despite a fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States

12:56 AM on Friday, August 28

There is a thriving nightlife in Nigeria's conservative Sokoto state, which is known as the “seat of the caliphate” for its storied place in the birth and propagation of Islam in West and Central Africa

11:23 PM on Thursday, August 27

Rescuers on the Nepal-China border are pulling out flood survivors caked in dark brown mud while helicopters lift stranded people to safety