Religion News

5:40 PM on Thursday, December 25

President Donald Trump says the U.S. launched a “powerful and deadly" strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the government there of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the West African country

7:47 AM on Thursday, December 25

Istanbul police have launched simultaneous raids at 124 locations, detaining over a hundred suspected members of the militant Islamic State group

5:55 AM on Thursday, December 25

Three Palestinians have been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a Christmas tree and damaging a Nativity scene at a Catholic Church in the West Bank city of Jenin

5:10 AM on Thursday, December 25

Pope Leo XIV, during his first Christmas Day message, has urged the faithful to shed indifference toward those who are suffering

11:00 PM on Wednesday, December 24

King Charles III has urged people to focus on kindness instead of conflict in his annual Christmas address

9:56 PM on Wednesday, December 24

A bomb has exploded during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing five people

10:16 AM on Wednesday, December 24

9:14 AM on Wednesday, December 24

Christian music is growing in popularity while other genres struggle to grow new listenership

8:06 AM on Wednesday, December 24

An explosive device has detonated in Gaza and wounded one Israeli soldier, prompting Israel to accuse Hamas of violating the U.S.-brokered ceasefire

6:44 AM on Wednesday, December 24

On Christmas Eve, thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square and other Holy Land sites, after two years of subdued Christmas celebrations because of the war in Gaza

1:10 AM on Wednesday, December 24

Hundreds of worshippers have gathered at Mar Elias Church in Syria to remember those lost in a suicide attack

3:26 PM on Tuesday, December 23

Pope Leo XIV says he's “very disappointed” that his home state of Illinois has approved medically assisted suicide

8:47 AM on Tuesday, December 23

Two and a half months have passed since Gaza’s latest ceasefire took effect, and the supplies being delivered to war-battered Palestinians are once again the subject of fierce debate

7:45 AM on Tuesday, December 23

A Palestinian government official says Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian home in the south of the Israeli-occupied West Bank overnight

4:08 AM on Tuesday, December 23

A protest has erupted in India after a Hindu man was allegedly lynched and burned alive in Bangladesh

3:09 AM on Tuesday, December 23

Gaza’s tiny Palestinian Christian community is trying to capture some of the Christmas spirit under a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war

12:54 AM on Tuesday, December 23

An Australian state leader says a man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach faced a lengthy gun license delay due to bureaucracy, not suspicion

5:01 PM on Monday, December 22

Florida's Catholic bishops have appealed to President Donald Trump to pause immigration enforcement during the Christmas holidays

3:00 PM on Monday, December 22

7:38 AM on Monday, December 8