Religion News

10:07 PM on Saturday, September 6

In Bolivia’s Yungas region, farmers like Tomas Zavala perform rituals to honor Mother Earth before harvesting coca leaves

4:38 PM on Saturday, September 6

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Tens of thousands of devotees celebrated the start of Nepal's festival season by gathering in Kathmandu

2:35 AM on Saturday, September 6

Over 1,000 LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families have participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome

2:31 AM on Saturday, September 6

The Israeli army has issued evacuation orders and targeted high-rise buildings in famine-stricken Gaza City

1:07 AM on Saturday, September 6

10:25 PM on Friday, September 5

Iran is paving over a lot in Tehran's largest cemetery believed to be the final resting place for some of the thousands killed in the mass executions that followed the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution

11:22 AM on Friday, September 5

National conservatism is reshaping the Republican Party in President Donald Trump’s second term

8:57 AM on Friday, September 5

Pope Leo XIV has inaugurated a new sustainable farming project run by the Vatican

8:55 AM on Friday, September 5

5:58 AM on Friday, September 5

Israel has struck a high-rise building in Gaza City after warning residents to evacuate

4:05 AM on Friday, September 5

Members of California’s Sikh trucking community say a deadly crash involving one of its own has led to a spike in anti-Sikh rhetoric

10:15 PM on Thursday, September 4

Pope Leo XIV will preside over his first canonization ceremony Sunday to create the first millennial saint

10:12 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Ukrainian government has declared that a branch of the Orthodox Church has failed to sever all ties with Moscow — and could soon be banned

12:34 PM on Thursday, September 4

The shooter who killed two children and injured 21 others at a Minneapolis church was seen on video visiting a suburban gun shop the weekend before the attack

10:17 AM on Thursday, September 4

Somalis have marked the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday with a government-declared public holiday, reviving an old tradition of merriment once banned by extremist militants who reject such public spectacle

6:47 AM on Thursday, September 4

Health officials in the Gaza Strip say that more than 64,000 have been killed in the nearly two-year war

2:14 AM on Thursday, September 4

Pope Leo XIV and his top diplomats have told Israel’s president that a two-state solution is the “only way out of the war,” in Gaza

1:50 AM on Thursday, September 4

A Moroccan court has sentenced feminist activist Ibtissam Lachgar to two and a half years in prison and fined her $5,000 for blasphemy