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Traditionalist Catholics who felt abandoned after Pope Francis restricted the old Latin Mass rejoiced Saturday as they celebrated the traditional liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit approval of Pope Leo XIV.

Turning Point USA unveiled a new wooden cross outside its Phoenix-area headquarters this week, a tribute from supporters in Texas and Ohio honoring the late organization founder, Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last month.

The Archdiocese of Caracas announced the abrupt suspension on Wednesday of a scheduled weekend Mass in celebration of the recent canonization of Saints José Gregorio Hernández and Carmen Rendiles, Venezuela’s first Catholic saints.

An American missionary, tentatively identified by Christian groups as 50-year-old Kevin Rideout, was kidnapped from Niger’s capital city of Niamey by three unidentified gunmen on Tuesday.

Vice President JD Vance visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Israel, on Thursday, paying his respects to the traditional site where Catholics believe that Jesus Christ was buried after his crucifixion.

More than 650 rabbis warned Wednesday that electing Democratic Socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani would endanger “the safety and dignity of Jews in every city,” citing his refusal to condemn “globalize the intifada,” denial of Israel’s legitimacy, and “genocide” claims, according to a letter published by the Jewish Majority.

Christian singer Chris Tomlin, who performed at Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s memorial last month, is seeing signs of a spiritual revival and real “awakening” in America. “There’s no playing games anymore,” the Grammy Award-winning worship leader said.

A Polish Wikipedia editor earlier this year complained about religious discrimination to a committee that enforces the “code of conduct” imposed by the Wikimedia Foundation that owns Wikipedia. The editor expressed opposition to LGBT ideology, citing Bible verses condemning it in his profile on a Discord Wikipedia chat group, prompting mockery and insults from others. Members of the committee rejected his claims and suggested instead the Bible verses were a violation.

The Imam at the top mosque in Paris has complained that Muslims have become “collateral victims” of the beheading of a French secondary school teacher by a radical Islamist refugee.

UNION CITY, New Jersey — Democrat candidate for governor Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) and her supporters launched an attack on Republican rival Jack Ciattarelli on Monday condemning a speaker at a “Muslims for Jack” event for expressing opposition to same-sex marriage and confessing he had faced antisemitic condemnation for supporting Ciattarelli.

Kiss rocker Gene Simmons called out Jewish Hollywood celebrities pushing “incendiary” anti-Israel propaganda. “They don’t understand, they’re just idiots,” the “I Love It Loud” singer said.

Anti-Israel activists in South Africa are planning protests at a local Holocaust museum to demand that it recognize the recent Gaza war as a “genocide,” comparable to the Nazi murder of six million Jews.

Bible sales soared 36 percent in September compared to the same month in 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing data from the publishing sales tracker Circana BookScan.

Two female reverends have been working on a children’s Bible with social justice themes. 

A Jewish lawyer has accused London’s Metropolitan Police of arresting him at a pro-Palestine protest for wearing a Star of David necklace.

The Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand Summit 2025 continues into its second day on Saturday, October 18.

The Portuguese lawmakers passed a bill to bar the “concealment of faces in public spaces” in a bid to outlaw the Islamic practice of veiling women, which opponents have argued represents repression of women.

The Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand Summit 2025 begins on Friday, October 17.

Charles III to travel to Vatican for state visit, where he will pray with Pope Leo , the first time such a thing has happened in centuries.

Skip Bayless blasted Jaguars player Travis Hunter for being baptized into the Christian faith hours ahead of Sunday game against the Seahawks

The head of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), a coalition of Anglican leaders opposing the liberalization of the Anglican Church spearheaded by leadership in England, announced on Thursday they would split from Canterbury, declaring itself the true leadership of the Church.

The UK Guardian published a glowing article last weekend celebrating the success of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign in closing Jewish-owned businesses — what it called “Israel-adjacent.”

A senior at the University of North Georgia is voicing her shock after buying a textbook that apparently labeled Christianity as a white supremacist group.

Few world leaders have a busier schedule than Pope Leo XIV. However, if you thought the Supreme Pontiff wasn’t paying attention to the MLB playoffs, you thought wrong.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has joked that people appear to confuse him with God. The statement appeared on his press office account, which he has devoted to attempts to parody President Donald Trump.

Hamas offered starving hostages more food if they converted to Islam — and they refused, according to statements by families of some of the 20 living hostages who were returned to Israel earlier this week.

The actors set to star as Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson’s upcoming “The Resurrection of the Christ” has been revealed.

The small but devout Christian community in Gaza is slowly starting the process of rebuilding after Israel and the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas agreed to a peace deal, brokered by the White House, this week, Father Gabriel Romanelli of Gaza City’s Holy Family Church said on Monday.

A dedicated prayer room for Muslims has reportedly been opened inside the 500-year-old Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome after a plea for the separate, carpeted space was made by visiting Islamic scholars.

President Donald Trump will honor late Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday afternoon, which would have been his 32nd birthday. 

Charlie Kirk, who was a champion for free speech, a devout Christian, and the founder of Turning Point USA, would have been 32 years old today.

The Chinese Communist government launched its biggest crackdown on Christians in years over the weekend, detaining dozens of pastors from “house churches,” including Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, the founder of one of China’s biggest evangelical churches.