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The Satanic Temple (TST) has announced that SatanCon 2023, “a weekend of blasphemy” to be held in Boston this April, has sold out.

A transgender bishop, the Rev. Megan Rohrer, is suing a Lutheran denomination for harassment and discrimination.

New York is threatening yeshivas to provide public “substantial equivalency” education — as crises of declining academic standards, grade inflation, truancy, and corporal punishment plague city public schools.

Venezuela’s socialist regime announced the debut on Thursday of a 330-Venezuelan-bolivar ($13.50) “Good Shepherd” bonus through its Chinese social credit system-inspired Fatherland platform to members of the Evangelical Christian community in the country.

Progressive San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy has doubled down in his defense of active homosexuality, asserting that gay sex is not necessarily a serious sin.

Ryuho Okawa, the head of the Japanese religious organization “Happy Science” who claimed to be the reincarnation of an alien god named “El Cantare,” died this week, multiple Japanese news outlets confirmed.

In an industry where Christianity isn’t fashionable, Hollywood star Kelsey Grammer is refusing to apologize for his faith.

Pope Francis has praised murdered L.A. Bishop David O’Connell for his pro-life efforts and commitment to the poor and migrants.

A Christian organization and one that opposes Christians are offering conflicting advice to the University of Colorado about Deion Sanders.

The monks of Chartreuse who make the eponymous herbal liqueur have announced their intention to cut back on production for religious and environmental motives.

The authoritarian Sandinista regime of Nicaragua banned the nation’s Catholic Church from celebrating all Holy Week processions, ecclesiastical sources informed local media on Friday.

“Jesus Revolution,” the Christian-themed comedy-drama, starring Kelsey Grammer, grossed $15.9 million at the weekend box office, finishing at No. 3. Analysts had expected the Lionsgate release to earn between $6 million and $7 million on its first weekend.

Nigeria’s Catholic bishops have warned that the nation could plunge into “an avoidable crisis” if trust in the electoral process is not restored after this week’s dubious election.

A proposal to erect a pagan “Amazonian love god” status near a cathedral in the English city of Wakefield has drawn the ire of residents.  

Pope Francis has abolished housing discounts for cardinals, bishops, and other Vatican officials, citing a need to increase “revenues from the management of real estate assets.”

The Catholic Humanitarian Committee has written a letter condemning the unjust imprisonment of Hong Kong Catholic businessman Jimmy Lai by Communist Chinese authorities.

The redoubtable bishop of Springfield, IL, has publicly accused San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy of “heresy” for his rejection of the Church basic moral teaching.

Uganda is resisting international pro-gay propaganda by putting forward new legislation to protect its “cherished values and culture” according to Annet Anita Among, the speaker of the Ugandan parliament.

The Vatican risks falling into isolation and irrelevance, warns a veteran Italian journalist Tuesday, as world leaders are finding Pope Francis easier and easier to ignore.

The Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano has appealed to Catholics to “fast from gas” and other fossil fuels during Lent in solidarity with those suffering “cold in Ukraine.”

The Protestant Council of Rwanda (CPR) has instructed all its health facilities to stop performing abortions, joining a similar policy adopted by the Catholic Church.

A Miami judge declined to block Florida’s 15-week abortion ban on Friday in a lawsuit brought by clergy members of several different faiths.

Gun clubs in New York and Texas are urging Jewish people to respond to anti-Semitic threats at home and abroad by becoming proficient with firearms. 

Pope Francis has proven to be a deeply authoritarian leader of the Catholic Church despite his rhetoric on “decentralization,” veteran Vatican journalist John L. Allen asserted Sunday.

Four pupils have been suspended from a high school in the UK after a Quran they purchased was said to have sustained a small tear.

This week a Catholic prayer app beat out TikTok and other major social media apps in an unlikely Lenten surge.

Pope Francis said Sunday that the devil tempts human beings with three “poisons,” namely attachments, distrust, and power, in order to separate us from God.

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire – Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spoke with Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday about his roots in America’s Rust Belt, detailing the impact that family, hard work, and religion had in helping forge the man he is today as he looks to spark a revival of “American exceptionalism.”

The spokesman for the Scottish Catholic Church has warned against an imposed uniformity in the name of diversity that respects sexual orientations while failing to respect “religious orientations.”

Pope Francis reiterated his disbelief in “just war theory” Friday, asserting that “war always diminishes us.”

Leftist Humza Yousaf, frontrunner to become Scotland’s new First Minister, allegedly caved to “pressure” from a mosque to skip a vote on same-sex marriage – but he has faced little scrutiny of his religious views compared to Christian rival Kate Forbes.

One of the directors of the new movie “Jesus Revolution” hasn’t missed the fact that the title is opening on the heels of one of the largest Christian revivals in recent years — the Asbury Revival, which saw an estimated 50,000 Gen Z’ers participate in song and prayer over a multi-week period at Asbury University in Kentucky.

The Indian Council of Scotland said that they would not “feel safe” should far-left Humza Yousaf become the next first minister of Scotland.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference, has denounced the ongoing aggression against Catholics by the Nicaraguan regime of dictator Daniel Ortega.

Pope Francis launched an appeal on Ash Wednesday for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine as the first anniversary of the Russian invasion approaches.

Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg has acknowledged that faith remains central to his life even though it is “not popular in my industry.”