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9:11 PM on Monday, September 22

9:09 PM on Monday, September 22

Every two decades for the last 1,300 years, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine of Ise Jingu has been knocked down and rebuilt from scratch

9:05 PM on Monday, September 22

A growing number of experts have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies

9:02 PM on Monday, September 22

Each generation, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a massive, $390 million demolition and construction job that takes about nine years

12:22 PM on Monday, September 22

With Vice President JD Vance calling Charlie Kirk “a martyr for Christianity,” some Kirk admirers suggest his assassination will galvanize throngs of people — notably young conservatives — to become more engaged in evangelical and Catholic churches

11:28 AM on Monday, September 22

The 82-year-old leader of the Unification Church has been arrested in an investigation into allegations that the church bribed the wife of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker

10:35 AM on Monday, September 22

A federal appeals court has ruled that a Vermont Christian school can participate in the state's sports league

5:58 AM on Monday, September 22

Motorcycle rallies often bring to mind beer and rock 'n' roll

5:48 AM on Monday, September 22

Defense lawyers in the Holy See’s “trial of the century” have asked the Vatican prosecutor to recuse himself from the appeals trial

1:58 AM on Monday, September 22

Israeli forces are showing no signs of relenting on their new ground offensive in Gaza City as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly and more countries prepare to join the surge of nations recognizing a Palestinian state

8:26 AM on Sunday, September 21

France and Saudi Arabia hope to use this year’s United Nations General Assembly and the increasingly horrific war in the Gaza Strip to inject new urgency into the quest for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

2:11 AM on Sunday, September 21

Health officials say Israeli strikes in Gaza City overnight and at a refugee camp have killed more than 40 people, including 19 women and children

1:21 AM on Sunday, September 21

The U.K., Australia and Canada have formally recognized a Palestinian state, prompting an angry response from Israel

10:07 PM on Saturday, September 20

Afro-Bolivians, though recognized in their country's 2009 constitution, remain among Bolivia’s most invisible groups

9:01 PM on Saturday, September 20

President Donald Trump and his supporters have paid tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a memorial service in Arizona

3:24 AM on Saturday, September 20

Israeli strikes have killed at least 14 people overnight in Gaza City, according to health officials

11:08 PM on Friday, September 19

When the appeals trial opens Monday in the Vatican's “trial of the century,” thousands of pages of WhatsApp text messages will be taking center stage

10:45 PM on Friday, September 19

The Vatican’s “trial of the century” is heading into the appeals phase

3:54 PM on Friday, September 19

An Egyptian immigrant and chaplain in Cincinnati has been released after weeks in detention

7:14 AM on Tuesday, September 9

After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world has roared back to life at a monastery in Jerusalem’s Old City