Religion News

6:46 AM on Thursday, May 14

Large crowds of ultranationalist Jews are marching through Jerusalem's Old City, many of them chanting incendiary slogans like "death to Arabs."

5:32 AM on Thursday, May 14

Pope Leo XIV has denounced investments in AI and high-tech weaponry, warning they lead to a “spiral of annihilation.”

5:20 AM on Thursday, May 14

President Donald Trump and several top administration officials are joining with a cast of mostly conservative Christian clergy this Sunday for a prayer gathering

4:40 AM on Thursday, May 14

The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced in New York to 15 years in prison for trying to recruit others to commit violent acts against Jews and racial minorities

4:01 AM on Thursday, May 14

A group of Black divers recently visited the site where the British slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 326 years ago

12:33 AM on Thursday, May 14

Tensions are escalating again near the Strait of Hormuz after a ship anchored off the United Arab Emirates was seized and taken toward Iran and another was attacked and sank near the coast of Oman

4:36 PM on Wednesday, May 13

A man has pleaded guilty to repeatedly ramming his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in New York City

11:09 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says he quietly visited the United Arab Emirates during the Iran war

9:03 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Palestinian authorities say Israeli police have shot and killed a Palestinian man attempting to climb the barrier separating the West Bank from Jerusalem

5:32 AM on Wednesday, May 13

Open Society Foundations, the family philanthropy founded by hedge fund billionaire George Soros, is putting $30 million toward groups fighting antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate

4:05 AM on Wednesday, May 13

The Vatican has issued a final warning to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics

9:28 PM on Tuesday, May 12

King Charles III has outlined the British government's legislative plans as Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces pressure to stay in power

9:56 AM on Tuesday, May 12

Albrecht Weinberg, who survived several Nazi concentration and death camps and lost most of his family in the Holocaust before returning to Germany in his 80s, has died, has died at the age of 101, authorities in his home region said

5:27 AM on Tuesday, May 12

Israeli authorities have started the demolition of some shops built without permits on the outskirts of a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank

1:07 AM on Tuesday, May 12

Kuwait has accused Iran of launching a failed attack earlier this month on an island where China is helping build a port in the Gulf Arab nation

3:06 PM on Monday, May 11

Israeli lawmakers have approved a bill setting up a special tribunal that would try and have the authority to sentence to death Palestinians convicted of taking part in the 2023 Hamas-led attack that triggered the war in Gaza

7:16 AM on Monday, May 11

Israel’s military says two soldiers will spend weeks in military prison for the desecration of a Christian statue in southern Lebanon

6:40 AM on Monday, May 11

A Palestinian family in the West Bank says Israeli settlers forced them to dig up their newly buried 80-year-old relative

4:04 AM on Monday, May 11

IVF presents challenges for some anti-abortion Christians who believe life begins at fertilization

4:03 AM on Monday, May 11

A Tennessee doctor is practicing reproductive medicine aligned with his Christian faith