Religion News

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

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

3:34 PM on Tuesday, April 21

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

9:57 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Authorities say an Israeli army reservist has shot and killed two Palestinians near a school in a village east of Ramallah

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

8:22 AM on Tuesday, April 21

8:22 AM on Tuesday, April 21

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

8:41 AM on Monday, April 20

There is a case to be made that Pope Leo XIV found his voice on his epic and ongoing trip through Africa

3:02 AM on Monday, April 20

U.S. President Donald Trump is giving mixed messages about the path ahead for the U.S. war with Iran

2:43 AM on Monday, April 20

President Donald Trump is defending his Iran war strategy, attacking critics and skeptics on Monday as “TRAITORS, ALL” after a second round of talks with Iran were thrown into doubt by the U.S. Navy’s seizure of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz