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Sep 1, 2025
As the United States expanded westward, the federal government strove to enforce its ideals on a not-entirely-receptive populace. So, the white settlers didn’t just want to...
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Aug 22, 2025
Pope Leo XIV is considering Lebanon for his first journey abroad, a visit that would call for peace and dialogue in the Middle East.
Archbishop Paul Sayah, vicar general of the...
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Aug 15, 2025
Although Jews make up around only 2% of the U.S. population, reported single-bias, anti-Jewish hate crimes comprised 16% of all reported hate crime.
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Aug 14, 2025
Gauri Khan, married to Shah Rukh Khan for 33 years, has always maintained her Hindu faith, a key aspect of their interfaith marriage.
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Aug 14, 2025
Mercyhealth reaches an agreement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission following an investigation into complaints employees were discriminated against based on their...
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Aug 13, 2025
In the latest issue of The Communist, we answer a question from a reader in Sussex: are religion and communism mutually exclusive? And do communists believe religion needs to be...
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Jul 29, 2025
The office that manages Vatican investments and real estate on Monday reported a profit of 62 million euros (around $63 million) in 2024, up 16 million euros from 2023. It’s...
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Jul 28, 2025
The archbishop of Warsaw, Poland, has asked the Vatican to defrock a priest charged with the killing of a 68-year-old homeless man who was beaten with an ax and set on...
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Jul 21, 2025
The United Nations on Monday expressed concern about the Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for their alleged failure to comply with the authorities’ dress...
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Jul 15, 2025
St Dunstan’s Church in Canterbury has revealed plans to exhume and preserve the remains of Catholic martyr Sir Thomas More.
The plan is to put the centuries-old holy relic on...
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Jun 24, 2025
All public school classrooms in Texas are now required to display the Ten Commandments, making Texas the largest state to enact such a mandate.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed...
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Jun 18, 2025
House of Promise pastor Richard Hyatt and Massachusetts Liberty Legal Center counsel Sam Whiting on Salem, Massachusetts weighing a vote to ban religious groups from renting school...
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Jun 16, 2025
The Church of England has unveiled a three-year spending plan that includes an increase in clergy stipends and enhanced investment in local churches.
The denomination's endowment...
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Jun 11, 2025
Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signalling he is continuing one of Pope Francis’ most...
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Jun 4, 2025
After over two years, the FBI has released over 100 pages of writings and other documents from the perpetrator of the March 2023 Covenant School shooting in Nashville,...
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May 30, 2025
Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church in Memphis, Tennessee, that played an important role in...
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May 27, 2025
Lawmakers in Texas have passed a bill that, if signed by the governor, would mandate the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom.
The Texas House of...
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May 12, 2025
The Hamas terrorist organization announced on Sunday night that it would release Israeli-American Edan Alexander as part of efforts to achieve a ceasefire.
The U.S.-designated terror...
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May 9, 2025
President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday afternoon, 'We were a little bit surprised, but very happy. It’s just a great, absolutely great honor." Pope Leo XIV is the first...
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May 9, 2025
Peace be with you! Dearest brothers and sisters, this was the first greeting of the risen Christ, the good shepherd who gave His life for the flock of God. I, too, would like this...
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May 8, 2025
Last week, Harvard’s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias issued its long awaited report. The Task Force was established in January 2024 by...
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Apr 21, 2025
The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, has been postponed due to the death Monday of Pope Francis, the Vatican announced.
Acutis was to be canonized...
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Apr 14, 2025
As America navigates a rapidly changing spiritual landscape, one truth remains constant: the person of Jesus of Nazareth has an ageless attraction, even for those wary of religion...
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Apr 14, 2025
A man suspected of setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion, while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were sleeping inside overnight Saturday, was arrested.
Shapiro,...
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Apr 1, 2025
Venezuela is set to have its first female saint following approval from Pope Francis.
On Monday, he paved the way for the canonization of Blessed María Carmen Rendiles by...
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Mar 25, 2025
The mystery of the annunciation to Mary is not just a mystery of silence. It is above and beyond all that a mystery of grace.
We feel compelled to ask ourselves: Why did Christ...
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Mar 17, 2025
In nothing has the church so lost her hold on reality as in her failure to understand and respect the secular vocation. She has allowed work and religion to become separate...
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Mar 13, 2025
A former pastor of a Texas megachurch who resigned after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her in the 1980s has been indicted in Oklahoma on child sexual abuse...
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Mar 11, 2025
Algeria’s president has announced plans to import a staggering 1 million sheep ahead of this year’s Eid al-Adha, the holiday during which Muslims worldwide purchase...
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Mar 7, 2025
Approximately 90,000 Muslims, including thousands from Judea and Samaria, ascended the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City for the first mass prayers of Ramadan on Friday...
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Feb 26, 2025
Millions of devotees across India are celebrating the Shivaratri festival that honors the Hindu god Shiva, one of the main deities of Hinduism.
The devotees celebrate the...
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Feb 18, 2025
The Vatican on Tuesday canceled papal audiences through the weekend and delegated others to cover for Pope Francis as the 88-year-old pope remained hospitalized with...
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Feb 17, 2025
Monday is the 500th day of the war triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack into southern Israel.
A tenuous ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has held for nearly a month....
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Feb 14, 2025
The share of young adults who say they have not had sex in the last year has skyrocketed in the past decade, while the virginity rate for young adult males has more than doubled,...
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Jan 30, 2025
Two bereaved parents and 12 fellow members of a fringe Australian religious congregation accused of killing an 8-year-old girl by withholding her diabetes medication were found...
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Jan 16, 2025
Hamas has reneged on parts of the ceasefire agreement announced on Wednesday in an effort to extort last-minute concessions, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said on...
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Jan 8, 2025
Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced the “scourge” of child labor and other abuses suffered by children, saying anyone who harms or exploits a child will have to answer to...
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Jan 6, 2025
A soccer-loving nun from Brazil is believed to have become the world’s oldest living person at nearly 117 following the recent death of a woman from Japan.
Sister Inah...