Religion News

2:49 PM on Sunday, October 5

Sukkot, a week-long Jewish holiday celebrating the traditional gathering of the harvest, is getting underway

8:38 AM on Sunday, October 5

Israel and Hamas are preparing for indirect negotiations in Egypt on Monday as hopes are rising for a possible ceasefire in Gaza

6:08 AM on Sunday, October 5

Activists detained while trying to reach Gaza by sea have complained of mistreatment by Israeli guards

4:07 AM on Sunday, October 5

The British government says it will give police stronger powers to restrict repeated protests

3:29 AM on Sunday, October 5

1:21 PM on Saturday, October 4

Israel's Netanyahu says hopes to announce release of all hostages from Gaza 'in the coming days,' as talks move to Egypt

11:54 AM on Saturday, October 4

Both Israel and now Hamas have signaled support for the new U.S. plan to end the war in Gaza and release all remaining hostages there

11:42 AM on Saturday, October 4

Pope Leo XIV has presided over the swearing-in ceremony of 27 new Swiss Guards

9:37 AM on Saturday, October 4

Thousands have gathered in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa for the East African country’s thanksgiving festival

6:54 AM on Saturday, October 4

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed the Rev. Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop on Saturday, marking a historic moment for the predominantly white denomination

5:06 AM on Saturday, October 4

Manchester is facing the latest tragedy to befall the city with a mix of defiance and shock

4:23 AM on Saturday, October 4

Hundreds of thousands of Italians and Spaniards marched in Rome, Barcelona and Madrid against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in a massive show of growing international anger at the two-year war

4:11 AM on Saturday, October 4

U.K. police have been given extra time to question four people arrested on suspicion of terror offenses after an attack on a synagogue in northwest England

3:33 AM on Saturday, October 4

Israel's prime minister says he hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza “in the coming days” as Israel and Hamas prepare for indirect talks in Egypt on a new U.S. plan to end the war

11:02 PM on Friday, October 3

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has convened for its twice-annual general conference at a pivotal moment in its history

2:52 PM on Friday, October 3

Hundreds of mourners gathered in wind and rain for a vigil that combined grief and defiance in the remembrance of two men who were killed when a knife-wielding assailant attacked their synagogue in the English city of Manchester

2:21 PM on Friday, October 3

For the first time, a woman will serve as the Archbishop of Canterbury, following the 105 men who have held the role since St. Augustine took that position in the year 597

12:17 PM on Friday, October 3

Police in Michigan released brief bodycam video from the encounter with a mass shooter at a church last weekend

1:58 AM on Friday, October 3

British police say one of the two men killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in the city of Manchester may have been killed by a bullet fired by a police officer

7:16 AM on Thursday, October 2

A man drove a car into people and stabbed them outside a synagogue in northwestern England on the holiest day of the Jewish year