Religion News

4:25 AM on Friday, July 31

Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says his Muslim faith shapes his progressive views

1:46 PM on Thursday, July 30

One of the first “girl group” stars has died

5:13 AM on Thursday, July 30

3:19 PM on Wednesday, July 29

At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier and Baptist minister founded a school in Raleigh, North Carolina, to provide formerly enslaved people with religious literacy

2:52 PM on Wednesday, July 29

A man has been sentenced to just over six months behind bars for ramming his car into the world headquarters of the Jewish group Chabad Lubavitch in New York City

10:33 PM on Tuesday, July 28

Austria's Grassmayr Bell Foundry has been casting massive bells for churches and cathedrals around the globe for more than 400 years

10:16 PM on Tuesday, July 28

Right-wing Israeli activists are ramping up their fringe campaign to establish Jewish settlements inside Syria by staging frequent incursions across the border

10:09 PM on Tuesday, July 28

The U.S. military says it has completed what it describes as “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan

8:14 PM on Tuesday, July 28

2:52 PM on Tuesday, July 28

The U.S. military says it successfully intercepted an Iranian missile barrage and worked with Saudi Arabia’s forces to strike sites in Iraq that Tehran-backed militias have used to launch attacks in recent days

3:57 AM on Tuesday, July 28

Authorities in Bosnia are investigating the desecration of a Virgin Mary statue and a shrine damaged by fire in a southern village

2:06 AM on Tuesday, July 28

2:43 PM on Monday, July 27

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission

2:42 AM on Monday, July 27

Mediators have made progress in efforts to bring the United States and Iran back to negotiations and prevent an all-out war in the Middle East

7:28 AM on Sunday, July 26

The United States has not attacked Iran for a second day, and Tehran says it has also halted attacks

8:17 AM on Saturday, July 25

Israel's military says it has detained over 70 suspects across the occupied West Bank following violence that left two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinian villagers dead there

3:01 PM on Friday, July 24

A suspect in two stabbings on New York City streets has been arrested on attempted murder and other charges

2:38 AM on Friday, July 24

A United Nations committee has inscribed a major archaeological site in the West Bank and a set of castles in southern Lebanon as World Heritage sites

9:39 PM on Thursday, July 23

The U.S. military says it has fired on a merchant vessel attempting to breach its blockade of Iranian ports, while Iran targeted American strongholds around the Persian Gulf

4:44 AM on Friday, July 17