Religion News

6:11 AM on Saturday, November 15

Pope Leo XIV has welcomed Spike Lee, Cate Blanchett, Greta Gerwig and dozens of other Hollywood luminaries to a special Vatican audience

2:11 AM on Saturday, November 15

The Vatican has returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada

1:55 AM on Saturday, November 15

Sacramento State hosts the Presbyterian Blue Hose after Jeremiah Cherry scored 22 points in Sacramento State's 77-73 loss to the UC Davis Aggies

10:06 PM on Friday, November 14

A new exhibition in Mexico City explores how the sacred myth that marked the site of the ancient Mexica — or Aztec — capital has survived the European conquest, colonization and centuries of change to remain at the heart of Mexico’s identity

2:02 PM on Friday, November 14

5:56 AM on Friday, November 14

Jordan’s king and Indonesia's leader have held talks as the two longtime friends agreed to strengthen military cooperation and economic ties between the two Muslim-majority nations

12:22 PM on Thursday, November 13

10:45 AM on Thursday, November 13

Israel says militants have handed over one of the last four remaining hostages taken during the 2023 attack that launched the war in Gaza

9:07 AM on Thursday, November 13

British political commentator Sami Hamdi has said on his arrival back in the U.K. that he was considering suing U.S. authorities for his detention in an immigration detention center

7:58 AM on Thursday, November 13

The body of a missing priest has been found in a river outside Mexico City

7:28 AM on Thursday, November 13

Kimberly Guilfoyle, U.S. President Donald Trump's new ambassador to Greece, has visited the head of the country's Orthodox Church

5:07 AM on Thursday, November 13

Filmmaker Lotfy Nathan has turned the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas into a supernatural thriller called “The Carpenter’s Son,” starring Nicolas Cage

4:22 AM on Thursday, November 13

One of the most spectacular examples of Renaissance illuminated manuscripts is going on rare public display as part of the Vatican’s Holy Year celebrations

1:58 AM on Thursday, November 13

Israeli settlers have torched and defaced a mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank

3:11 PM on Wednesday, November 12

U.S. Catholic bishops have voted to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals

11:24 AM on Wednesday, November 12

Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled Dec. 11 execution date

8:56 AM on Wednesday, November 12

A married couple fired from the Vatican bank for violating a new rule against workplace marriages has been rehired in a settlement

6:44 AM on Wednesday, November 12

Israel's president says authorities must take decisive action to stop “shocking and serious” Jewish settler violence against Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank

11:47 PM on Tuesday, November 11

Pakistan’s prime minister has offered talks to Afghanistan’s Taliban government in a renewed peace overture

9:33 PM on Tuesday, November 11

Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from motorbikes