Religion News

5:31 PM on Monday, December 8

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month

4:43 PM on Monday, December 8

The Archdiocese of New York says it will set up a $300 million fund to compensate victims of sexual abuse who have sued the church

3:08 PM on Monday, December 8

The New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of survivors of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement approved by a federal judge on Monday

10:38 AM on Monday, December 8

A federal judge has approved a federal settlement that will clear the way for the New Orleans Archdiocese to pay at least $230 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse

10:31 AM on Monday, December 8

Judge OKs settlement for New Orleans Archdiocese to pay at least $230 million to hundreds of clergy abuse victims

8:28 AM on Monday, December 8

Pope Leo XIV embraces a Roman tradition by praying for peace at a statue of the Madonna near the Spanish Steps

5:38 AM on Monday, December 8

5:31 AM on Monday, December 8

A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school and released over the weekend have been hosted at a government-organized ceremony

3:12 AM on Monday, December 8

Israeli police have forcibly entered the United Nations agency compound for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem

6:04 AM on Sunday, December 7

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas are expected to move into the second phase of their ceasefire soon

2:05 PM on Saturday, December 6

Christmas celebrations are returning to Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank after two years of war in Gaza

4:41 AM on Saturday, December 6

An Atlanta church with a viral pastor has grown from less than 200 weekly churchgoers in 2023 to about 6,000 today

1:38 AM on Saturday, December 6

Qatar’s prime minister says the Gaza ceasefire has reached a “critical moment” as its first phase winds down

10:04 PM on Friday, December 5

Mexican composer María Leonora relies on fire, ritual and Mesoamerican tradition to shape her immersive concerts

12:49 PM on Friday, December 5

On a gray afternoon in November, a group of 19 people took a walk through grassy fields to a remote Bronze Age stone circle in the southwestern-most U.K. county of Cornwall

11:19 AM on Friday, December 5

A Harvard visiting law professor from Brazil who told police he was shooting at rats when he fired a pellet gun near a synagogue on Yom Kippur has left the United States after his visa was revoked

5:15 AM on Friday, December 5

2:33 AM on Friday, December 5

Pope Leo XIV has taken his biggest step yet to correct one of Pope Francis’ more problematic financial moves

11:19 AM on Thursday, December 4

In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language

9:02 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Israeli and Thai officials say remains that militants in Gaza handed to Israel were those of a Thai agricultural worker killed during the attack that started the war two years ago