Religion News

9:04 PM on Monday, May 18

Loud and expressive mourners are common at funerals around the world — but in parts of Kenya, some of them may be paid workers

3:41 PM on Monday, May 18

An attack on a mosque in San Diego has resurrected fears about violence at houses of worship

2:16 PM on Monday, May 18

Authorities say two teenage suspects opened fire at an Islamic center in San Diego, killing three men before killing themselves

12:29 PM on Monday, May 18

Police say a shooting at a San Diego mosque has killed three men and both shooters are dead

4:38 AM on Monday, May 18

Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah are set to launch the pontiff’s first encyclical on May 25

8:24 AM on Sunday, May 17

Thousands of people have streamed onto the National Mall in Washington for a daylong prayer rally

6:03 AM on Sunday, May 17

Indigenous leaders say that federal contractors are desecrating sacred Native American places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace in the rush to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border

3:34 AM on Sunday, May 17

A drone strike has targeted the United Arab Emirates’ sole nuclear power plant

10:29 PM on Saturday, May 16

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library

4:09 AM on Saturday, May 16

Pope Leo XIV is adding a trip to France to his busy 2026 travel schedule

3:32 AM on Saturday, May 16

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed Hamas military wing leader Izz al-Din al-Haddad

9:01 PM on Friday, May 15

Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence in a sign of his ongoing concern about the technology

4:53 PM on Friday, May 15

A Catholic church in Eldoret, an epicenter of global long-distance running in the north Rift Valley region of Kenya, is in the spotlight after a runner prayed there and later won the London Marathon

11:24 AM on Friday, May 15

Military identification tags — popularly known as dog tags — became standard issue for U.S. troops at the request of an Army chaplain concerned about identifying fallen soldiers at the beginning of the 20th century

10:27 AM on Friday, May 15

An Iraqi national accused of plotting at least 18 terror attacks in Europe in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel's war in Iran has been arrested and charged with supporting Iran-backed terrorist organizations

8:07 AM on Friday, May 15

Belarus’ authoritarian leader has greeted U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham, who arrived in the tightly controlled country to hold the largest evangelical gathering in its history

12:14 AM on Friday, May 15

Australia says a neo-Nazi network will be the second organization being banned under its new law criminalizing hate groups and support for them

10:06 PM on Thursday, May 14

Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba

9:10 PM on Thursday, May 14

A teenage Buddhist lama recently blessed thousands at a monastery in the Himalayan foothills

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