This weekend Pope Francis presided over the unveiling of a nativity scene in the Vatican featuring a baby Jesus lying on a keffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian scarf used as a national symbol.
A senior Conservative MP has called for the UK to ban marriages between first cousins amid concerns over birth defects and the structures being used to control women.
Pope Francis has called on Christians to pray specifically for the inmates on death row in the United States, asking that their sentence may be commuted.
The San Francisco Hillel house, a Jewish center serving students at San Francisco State University, was vandalized on Sunday with graffiti that was both antisemitic and Islamist.
Israeli-American Roy Gross, 28, suffered a compound fracture of his leg after an assailant, who discovered he was Israeli, tried to run him and his friends over with a car recently in Laguna Beach, California.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Donald Trump’s nominee as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), credits his Christian faith with sustaining him amidst the abuse he suffered during the pandemic for his refusal to kowtow to Anthony Fauci and the coercive “scientific consensus.”
Reverend Franklin Graham on Saturday asked people to pray for Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson as he battles disease.
Led by Archbishop Laurent Ulrich, Notre Dame Cathedral hosted its first Mass since the catastrophic fire of 2019 on Sunday.
President-Elect Donald J. Trump joined dozens of world leaders and dignitaries on Saturday for the grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, five years after the famed Gothic cathedral was tragically ravaged by fire.
Pope Francis has proclaimed a special jubilee pilgrimage for gays and all LGBTQ+ people, Italian media announced this weekend.
Duck Dynasty star Jase Robertson revealed that his father, Phil Robertson, had been diagnosed with the “early stages” of Alzheimer’s disease.
Arsonists extensively damaged a Melbourne synagogue on Friday in what Australia’s prime minister condemned as an antisemitic attack on Australian values.
Thousands upon thousands of veterans’ headstones across the United States will have wreaths placed on them on December 14 to honor them and to keep their sacrifices fresh in the minds of all who see.
No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani shared a Christmas message about the love of Jesus Christ in a video posted to her Instagram account, where she urged her 17.7 million followers to join her in praying during the 25 days leading up to Christmas via the Catholic prayer app Hallow.
Actor-comedian and podcaster Russell Brand recently opened up about his conversion to Christianity, saying that he paid for sex until being “redeemed” by Jesus Christ.
Nature abhors a vacuum. So does politics. No sooner had President-elect Donald Trump been confirmed as the next occupant of the White House than beleaguered French President Emmanuel Macron sought to invite him to Saturday’s reopening of the magnificently restored Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.
Worshippers were forced to flee a Melbourne synagogue early Friday morning after it was set ablaze in an arson attack Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony called “act of hate.”
Muhammad was the top name choice for baby boys in England and Wales in 2023 with more than 4,600 children registered with the name.
Syrian Christians are living in “trauma” following the recent jihadist takeover of Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, reports a major Christian persecution watchdog group.
Kentucky Bishop John Stowe has expressed his “dismay” over the overwhelming Catholic voter support for Donald Trump, insisting that the U.S. Bishops should have warned Americans about the “danger” of the election.
Humanitarian groups are concerned that the surprise offensive launched by al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) against the Syrian government last week could put Syrian Christians in even greater danger, and they were already struggling to survive after a decade of civil war and the rise of the Islamic State.
Donald Trump will be in Paris this weekend to attend the Notre-Dame Cathedral reopening alongside 50 other world leaders, marking an immediate return to the international stage for the president-elect.
A religious release program focusing on “satanic studies” is kicking off in some schools in Marysville, Ohio, as an alternative to Bible-based instruction.
Bible sales are booming. As the world struggles through a litany of threats, upheavals, war and rumors of war, the ancient text has seen a 22 percent jump in sales across 2024.
French President Macron hailed “sublime” rebuild of the magnificent 12th-century Notre Dame as he toured it before reopening on Friday.
Senior officials in the United Arab Emirates attended the shiva, or traditional seven-day period of mourning, for Rabbi Tzvi Kogan, who was murdered last week by Iranian agents who kidnapped him from the capital of Abu Dhabi.
The “devoutly Catholic” President Joe Biden omitted any reference to Almighty God or Divine Providence Thursday in his annual proclamation of the spiritually charged American feast of Thanksgiving.
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ROME — The Vatican has launched a line of “Made in Prison” tote bags for pilgrims to carry around Rome to celebrate the upcoming Jubilee Year 2025.
Fifteen years ago, in Northeast Nigeria, Pastor Ohji delivered what would be his last, greatest and shortest sermon.
ROME — The number of anti-Christian hate crimes in Turkey more than doubled from 2021 to 2023, according to a report from International Christian Concern (ICC).
A strong majority of Americans still pray and express gratitude during Thanksgiving dinner, a Pew Research Center poll found.
German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office (DDF), has published a searing article accusing Pope Francis of “sins against the Holy Spirit.”
Churches across the country are teaming with volunteers to make sure people in need are able to celebrate Thanksgiving by giving out thousands of turkeys and meals.
The Ministry of the Interior for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced three arrests on Monday in connection with the disappearance and death of Rabbi Zvi Kogan of Abu Dhabi.
Bishop T.D. Jakes experienced a “slight health incident” on Sunday while delivering his sermon at the Potter’s House in Dallas.
The Times of Israel smeared Rebel News founder and journalist Ezra Levant as a “far-right activist” on Sunday after he was arrested in Toronto, Canada, for filming an anti-Israel protest in a Jewish neighborhood on a public sidewalk.
Rabbi Tzvi Kogan, the assistant rabbi to the growing Jewish community in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, was confirmed dead Sunday morning, apparently murdered by three Iranian agents from Uzbekistan who fled to Turkey.
Rabbi Tzvi Kogan, who works with the growing Jewish community in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, has been missing since Wednesday and is feared dead, according to reports in Israel on Saturday night local time.
A-List actor Denzel Washington says he knows it isn’t “fashionable” to talk about or even be religious in Hollywood. But he also says he has come to a place in his life where he simply does not care what anyone thinks about his open expressions of faith.
