Religion News

5:24 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, who died last month at age 89, was long celebrated as a champion of family values and parental discipline

3:06 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Pope Leo XIV has told the new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican that he was praying for Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated in Utah last week, as well as his wife and children

12:07 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Aid workers saved thousands of priceless archaeological artifacts in Gaza from destruction last week after Israel targeted the warehouse building in a strike

3:09 AM on Tuesday, September 16

A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

2:56 AM on Tuesday, September 16

The Israeli military says its expanded operation in Gaza City has begun

1:45 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Israeli forces have launched a new ground offensive in Gaza City, with heavy strikes reported across the area

12:14 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Israel has launched its offensive in Gaza City, vowing to overwhelm a city already in ruins from nearly two years of war

1:19 PM on Monday, September 15

The mother of James Foley, the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Syria in 2014, has told her story of loss and healing at a Vatican vigil attended by Pope Leo XIV

11:20 AM on Monday, September 15

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, is making his first visit in four years to the United States

9:05 AM on Monday, September 15

State Department says Rubio is heading to Qatar after meeting with Netanyahu in Israel

8:10 AM on Monday, September 15

Israel and the United States have shown a unified front amid international anger over Israel’s airstrikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar and its bombardment of Gaza City

1:13 AM on Monday, September 15

1:02 AM on Monday, September 15

There are more than 1,000 whitewashed stone chapels on the Greek island of Tinos owned and cared for by private families as they have in some cases for centuries

4:33 PM on Sunday, September 14

The mother of a 10-year-old girl killed during a mass shooting in a Catholic church in Minneapolis has remembered her as a sharp, curious and funny child who “didn’t water herself down.”

1:42 PM on Sunday, September 14

The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up is celebrating his 70th birthday with gospel music and a balloon release outside his boyhood home

12:50 PM on Sunday, September 14

Pope Leo XIV has honored hundreds of Christians who have been killed for their faith in the 21st century

10:51 AM on Sunday, September 14

Qatar's prime minister has denounced Israel as Arab and Muslim foreign ministers are meeting to discuss a unified response to Israel's attack on Doha

6:34 AM on Sunday, September 14

Pope Leo XIV has marveled at the “huge learning curve” he has taken on as pontiff and likened some aspects of the job to jumping “in on the deep end of the pool very quickly.”

5:39 AM on Sunday, September 14

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in Israel as it intensifies attacks on northern Gaza

12:47 AM on Sunday, September 14

Residents of Santiago de Compostela are struggling with overtourism