Religion News

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2:20 PM on Monday, March 2

Anglicans face a looming choice about whether their global church family can stay united

12:56 PM on Monday, March 2

Jews across Israel gathered in bomb shelters to mark the holiday of Purim as a precaution against possible Iranian missile attacks

11:20 AM on Monday, March 2

The Texas Legislature passed a bill last year giving schools the option of setting aside a daily school prayer period

9:18 AM on Monday, March 2

8:20 PM on Sunday, March 1

Iran's Revolutionary Guard has become a powerful force within the country's theocracy, answering only to the supreme leader

1:54 PM on Sunday, March 1

Palestinians in Gaza are reacting to a possible shift in the world's attention away from the Israel-Hamas ceasefire to a new regional conflict with Iran

5:00 AM on Sunday, March 1

Every Lunar New Year for the past 14 years, a Southern California Buddhist temple has displayed what it calls the “10,000 Buddha Relics.”

3:07 AM on Sunday, March 1

Afghanistan says it has thwarted an attempted Pakistani airstrike on Bagram Air Base

12:02 AM on Sunday, March 1

Authorities say at least 22 people were killed and more than 120 wounded in clashes with police on Sunday after protesters tried to storm the U.S. Consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi and U.N. offices in the north of the country

9:03 PM on Saturday, February 28

Many Algerians mark Ramadan with prayer and shared meals, but rising prices make the holiday table hard to afford

6:49 PM on Saturday, February 28

In Iran the supreme leader is the heart of a complex power-sharing theocracy and has final say over all matters of state

5:51 PM on Saturday, February 28

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, has been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes

2:57 PM on Saturday, February 28

Iranian state media say Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead

8:45 AM on Saturday, February 28

Nonstop Iranian missile fire has sent residents of central Israel scrambling in and out of shelters throughout the day

4:56 AM on Saturday, February 28

Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” is getting a facial

3:50 AM on Saturday, February 28

The war in the Middle East has intensified with attacks from Iran and Iranian-backed militias hitting Israel and Arab states

10:39 AM on Friday, February 27

Two American cardinals and the Vatican’s ambassador to the U.S. denounced the mass deportations in Minnesota under the federal government’s immigration crackdown

10:34 AM on Friday, February 27

Attorney General Pam Bondi says federal prosecutors have indicted 30 more people tied to a protest at a Minnesota church over an immigration enforcement crackdown

3:40 AM on Friday, February 27

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s “not happy” with the latest talks over Iran’s nuclear program but has indicated he'll give the negotiators more time to reach a deal to avert another war in the Middle East