Religion News

4:39 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Court rulings are bolstering mandates to display the Ten Commandments in public schools in the U.S. as supporters push to expand the role of religion in classrooms

12:01 PM on Wednesday, April 22

People who have fled abuses in Equatorial Guinea and are taking refuge elsewhere fear that the pope's visit to the Central African country could launder the image of Africa's longest-serving ruler

10:17 AM on Wednesday, April 22

A South Korean national has been arrested in Tokyo for allegedly obstructing a spring festival at Yasukuni Shrine

9:48 AM on Wednesday, April 22

French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud says he has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria for his book “Houris.”

8:20 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Xaneri Merino, a transgender woman and artisan from southern Mexico, was once punished for weaving in her Indigenous community, where men are largely barred from weaving

2:57 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Pope Leo XIV is urging Equatorial Guineans to work for freedom, justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged.”

1:48 AM on Wednesday, April 22

U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States was indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran as a new round of peace talks was on hold

1:39 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Iran has fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them

7:24 PM on Tuesday, April 21

A U.S. appeals court says Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms

5:22 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Five years ago, legendary Bible teacher Beth Moore made national headlines when she left the Southern Baptist Convention, the denomination that had been her whole life

2:06 PM on Tuesday, April 21

A teenager has admitted arson after an attack on a synagogue in London

12:44 PM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump has read a notable Bible passage in a livestreamed marathon

12:24 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military will no longer mandate the flu vaccine for American troops

8:36 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Rachel Goldberg-Polin has written a book about her son, Hersh, who was kidnapped during Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack and killed in a Gaza tunnel

6:54 AM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump and many of his conservative Christian supporters are participating in a marathon Bible reading event

6:40 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Pope Leo XIV has paid tribute to Pope Francis on Tuesday on the first anniversary of his death

4:11 AM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump says the United States is indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request as he waits for a unified proposal from the Islamic Republic

1:13 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the “colonization” of minerals and the “lust for power” in Equatorial Guinea at the end of his four-nation African trip

12:41 AM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump says he is extending the ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request while awaiting a “unified proposal” from Tehran, even as the U.S. military maintains its blockade of Iranian ports

5:15 PM on Wednesday, April 15