Religion
Some of Donald Trump’s top Republican rivals addressed a large, influential gathering of Iowa evangelical Christians on Saturday night.
Pope Francis will discuss how to address the world’s pressing issues with former President Bill Clinton to open this year’s Clinton Global Initiative, organizers announced Thursday.
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men have blocked a major Jerusalem intersection to protest the country’s mandatory military draft.
In the small town of Lamego in Portugal’s Douro River Valley, where harvesting grapes for wine is in full swing in early September, one of Portugal’s largest and oldest religious festivals draws thousands.
Pope’s Ukraine peace envoy heads to China on mission to help return Ukraine children taken to Russia
Pope Francis’ Ukraine peace envoy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, is heading to China on the fourth leg of a mission to return Ukrainian children taken to Russia.
The Vatican has opened the doors to one of Renaissance Rome’s most spectacular palazzos in a show of transparency.
Ahead of the High Holidays that begin this week, a network of Jewish security experts and religious leaders in the U.S. hosted several webinars to help prepare for the season.
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, starts at sundown on Friday, Sept. 15, and continues through the evening of Sunday, Sept. 17.
A sweeping study of sex abuse by priests and others within the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland has turned up more than 1,000 cases since the mid-20th century.
Canadian federal prosecutors are arguing that a man facing murder charges in the deaths of four members of a Muslim family was motivated by white nationalist beliefs.
A township in southeastern Michigan has been ordered to allow a Catholic group to post religious displays on a privately owned “prayer trail” depicting the last day of Jesus.
The Vatican has ordered an investigation into high-ranking Catholic clerics in Switzerland in connection with sexual abuse.
The Vatican has beatified a Polish family of nine including children who were all executed for having sheltered Jews during World War II. It was an unprecedented move.
Paris has rescinded a special honor it bestowed on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas because of recent antisemitic comments minimizing the Holocaust.
India, the host nation of this year’s Group of 20 summit, has two official names. One is India, and accepted in English communication worldwide.
An Episcopal bishop in Michigan has been placed on an immediate restriction from ministry as part of a misconduct investigation stemming from allegations by his adult sons of past verbal and physical abuse.
California lawmakers have voted to fast-track low-income housing on surplus land owned by nonprofit colleges and religious institutions.
Louisiana grand jury charges 91-year-old disgraced priest with sexual assault of teenage boy in 1975
A Louisiana grand jury has charged a now-91-year-old disgraced priest with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1975.
Catholic-Jewish research backs reports Catholic convents sheltered 3,000-plus Roman Jews during WWII
Researchers have discovered new documentation that substantiates reports that Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome sheltered Jews during World War II.
The archive of the Vicariate of Solidarity gives an account of a painful episode in Chile’s history: 47,000 instances of human rights violations during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who took power after a military coup that deposed President Salvador Allende 50 years ago.
A high school football coach in Washington state who won his job back after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled he could pray on the field resigned Wednesday after just one game.
Ukraine’s Greek Catholic bishops have brought their complaints about the Vatican’s diplomatic neutrality in Russia’s war on their country to the Holy See itself.
Hungary’s transportation minister gets sharp criticism for comments praising Nazi-allied WWII leader
A senior government official in Hungary is coming under sharp criticism for praising the country’s World War II-era leader as an exceptional head of state and a hero.
Pope Francis is insisting that the Vatican’s relations with China are going well despite setbacks but says more work is needed to show Beijing that the Catholic Church isn’t beholden to any foreign power.
Pope Francis has defended the decision to keep the discussions of a big Vatican meeting on the future of the Catholic Church behind closed doors.
Clashes erupt in Sweden’s third largest city after another Quran burning and at least 3 are detained
Police in Sweden say clashes have erupted in an immigrant neighborhood in the third largest city after an anti-Muslim protester set fire to a copy of the Quran.
Police say last month’s mob attacks on churches and homes of Christians in eastern Pakistan erupted after three Christians falsely implicated two others in a blasphemy case due to a personal dispute.
Francis opens clinic on the first papal visit to Mongolia. He says it’s about charity not conversion
Pope Francis is wrapping up the first-ever papal visit to Mongolia. He’s inaugurating a new church-run homeless clinic and shelter.
Pope Francis has sent a special greeting to China’s “noble” people. He gave them a special shout-out at the end of a Mass celebrated in neighboring Mongolia.
Iraqi medical officials say 18 people have been killed after a bus carrying pilgrims to the Iraqi city of Karbala overturned north of Baghdad.
Pope Francis has praised Mongolia’s tradition of religious freedom dating to the times of founder Genghis Khan during the first-ever papal visit to the Asian nation.