Faith
JERUSALEM -- Israeli police on Thursday arrested an American tourist after he allegedly knocked down and broke a statue of Jesus in a church in Jerusalem's Old…
by The Associated Press February 2, 2023KILDARE, Ireland -- St. Patrick has long received the attention and the big parades, but another patron saint of Ireland is making a 21st century comeback.
by Peter Smith, The Associated Press February 1, 2023TEXARKANA, Texas -- From left, Lowell A. Davis, executive director of the St. Basil School of Gregorian Chant in Houston, and Marc-André Bougie, music director…
by Karl Richter January 27, 2023VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as "unjust," saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catho…
by Nicole Winfield, Associated Press January 25, 2023NEW YORK -- Administrators of a trust fund established to preserve historic Black churches in the United States on Friday revealed a list of houses of worship …
by Aaron Morrison, AP National Writer January 20, 2023GOMA, Congo -- A suspected extremist attack at a church in eastern Congo killed at least 10 people and wounded more than three dozen, according to the country'…
by Justin Kabumba and Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro, THe Associated Press January 15, 2023LODZ, Poland -- The discovery in central Poland of hundreds of objects that were most likely hidden by their Jewish owners during World War II provided a rare …
by The Associated Press January 14, 2023OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma prison officials said Wednesday that they will allow an anti-death penalty minister with a history of protest-related arrests inside …
January 11, 2023EL PASO, Texas -- With a cheerful "soy Marcos" -- "I'm Mark," in Spanish -- Bishop Mark Seitz introduced himself to migrants eating soup in the shelter on the …
January 7, 2023KYIV, Ukraine -- Packing a cathedral for Orthodox Christmas, hundreds of worshippers heard the service in that church in the Ukrainian language for the first t…
January 7, 2023A man is accused of entering an Arkansas church, smashing a hammer through the center of its altar and stealing two boxes containing 1,500-year-old relics.
January 7, 2023Erika López Prater, an adjunct professor at Hamline University, in St. Paul, Minnesota, said she knew that many Muslims have deeply held religious beliefs that…
by Vimal Patel, NYTimes News Service January 7, 2023Religiously speaking, the incoming 118th Congress looks like America -- that is, the America of decades past, rather than today.
by Peter Smith, The Associated Press January 4, 2023VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis praised Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's "acute and gentle thought" during a Wednesday general audience in the Vatican, as tens of tho…
by Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press January 4, 2023VATICAN CITY -- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 's body, his head resting on a pair of crimson pillows, lay in state in St. Peter's Basilica on Monday as tens of th…
by Giada Zampano and Frances D’Emilio, The Associated Press January 2, 2023