Religion News

2:21 PM on Saturday, October 4

Israel's Netanyahu says hopes to announce release of all hostages from Gaza 'in the coming days,' as talks move to Egypt

12:54 PM on Saturday, October 4

Both Israel and now Hamas have signaled support for the new U.S. plan to end the war in Gaza and release all remaining hostages there

12:42 PM on Saturday, October 4

Pope Leo XIV has presided over the swearing-in ceremony of 27 new Swiss Guards

10:37 AM on Saturday, October 4

Thousands have gathered in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa for the East African country’s thanksgiving festival

7:54 AM on Saturday, October 4

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed the Rev. Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop on Saturday, marking a historic moment for the predominantly white denomination

6:06 AM on Saturday, October 4

Manchester is facing the latest tragedy to befall the city with a mix of defiance and shock

5:23 AM on Saturday, October 4

Hundreds of thousands of Italians and Spaniards marched in Rome, Barcelona and Madrid against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in a massive show of growing international anger at the two-year war

5:11 AM on Saturday, October 4

U.K. police have been given extra time to question four people arrested on suspicion of terror offenses after an attack on a synagogue in northwest England

4:33 AM on Saturday, October 4

Israel's prime minister says he hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza “in the coming days” as Israel and Hamas prepare for indirect talks in Egypt on a new U.S. plan to end the war

12:02 AM on Saturday, October 4

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has convened for its twice-annual general conference at a pivotal moment in its history

3:52 PM on Friday, October 3

Hundreds of mourners gathered in wind and rain for a vigil that combined grief and defiance in the remembrance of two men who were killed when a knife-wielding assailant attacked their synagogue in the English city of Manchester

3:21 PM on Friday, October 3

For the first time, a woman will serve as the Archbishop of Canterbury, following the 105 men who have held the role since St. Augustine took that position in the year 597

2:02 PM on Friday, October 3

A court in Armenia has sentenced a prominent cleric to two years in prison

1:17 PM on Friday, October 3

Police in Michigan released brief bodycam video from the encounter with a mass shooter at a church last weekend

12:19 PM on Friday, October 3

“House of David” premieres its second season on Sunday, and star Michael Iskander, who plays the titular role, is hoping it has the same success as its debut

7:04 AM on Friday, October 3

Zohran Mamdani’s rise in New York City’s mayoral race has brought him national prominence and a surge of anti-Muslim vitriol, including from elected officials and prominent conservatives

5:53 AM on Friday, October 3

Israeli forces have intercepted the last boat from an international flotilla trying to break Israel’s sea blockade of war-ravaged Gaza

2:58 AM on Friday, October 3

British police say one of the two men killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in the city of Manchester may have been killed by a bullet fired by a police officer

12:51 AM on Friday, October 3

Sarah Mullally, the bishop of London, has been named Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been chosen as the spiritual leader of the Church of England

8:16 AM on Thursday, October 2

A man drove a car into people and stabbed them outside a synagogue in northwestern England on the holiest day of the Jewish year