Religion
Maryland’s attorney general has released a less-redacted version of its report on child sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Police say a Virginia man posted vague online threats of violence and images of a church before going inside with a handgun and two knives during Sunday services.
Pope Francis is labeling the weapons industry as being a key driver of the “martyrdom” of Ukraine’s people in Russia’s war.
National Cathedral replaces windows honoring Confederacy with stained-glass homage to racial justice
The landmark Washington National Cathedral has unveiled new stained-glass windows with a theme of racial justice.
Pope Francis is challenging French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders to open their ports to people fleeing hardship and poverty.
A human rights foundation says a prominent Uyghur scholar specializing in the study of her people’s folklore and traditions has been sentenced to life in prison in China.
The shocking allegation that India may have been behind the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada is shining the light on various layers of activism as well as diverse views on a separate Sikh state or Khalistan within the North American diaspora.
Catholic church officials in Germany say a statue of late Cardinal Franz Hengsbach will be removed from outside a cathedral after allegations of sexual abuse against him surfaced.
A United Methodist Church court has acquitted a California bishop of all charges in the first trial of one of the church’s bishops in nearly a century.
The Catholic Church says the Vatican has shared with police findings of an internal investigation of a former Australian bishop over child sex abuse allegations and will fully cooperate with criminal investigators.
Pope Francis has blasted what he calls the “fanaticism of indifference” that greets migrants seeking a better life in Europe.
The Biden administration has pledged over $200 million toward reintroducing salmon in the Upper Columbia River Basin in an agreement with tribes that includes a stay on litigation for 20 years.
On Broome Street, in the heart of Manhattan’s fashionable Soho neighborhood, a Hindu temple dedicated to the elephant-headed deity Ganesha is striving to develop its own sense of cool.
A court in Indonesia has convicted a woman of inciting religious hatred and sentenced her to two years in prison for saying a Muslim prayer and then eating pork in a TikTok video.
An Iranian court has given two death sentences to a Tajik man convicted of carrying out a gun attack that killed two people at a major Shiite shrine in the southern city of Shiraz.
Canada is making an explosive allegation that India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil, but thus far Canada’s allies are voicing measured concern about what happened.
Several Catholic priests have held a ceremony blessing same-sex couples outside Cologne cathedral in a protest against the city’s conservative archbishop Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki.
Iran’s parliament has approved a bill to impose heavier penalties on women who refuse to wear the mandatory Islamic headscarf in public and those who support them.
Pope Francis is travelling to the French port city of Marseille to join Catholic bishops in a meeting focusing on the Mediterranean and migration.
A clergy sex abuse scandal involving Chile’s most notorious pedophile, the priest Fernando Karadima, shook the South American country in 2010 in a way never seen in Latin America.
The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted an Oklahoma church whose pastor defended his blackface performance at one church event and his impersonation of a Native American woman at another.
Tensions between Canada and India have escalated over the assassination of a Sikh independence advocate in June.
Tunisian president’s remarks on Storm Daniel have been denounced as antisemitic and prompt an uproar
Tunisian President Kais Saied’s remarks that have been denounced as antisemitic have prompted an uproar on social media across the world.
Women who say they were abused by a onetime Jesuit artist denounce an apparent rehabilitation effort
Women who say they were abused by a once-prominent Jesuit artist say they are now being revictimized by his superiors.
The Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which begins this year on Sunday night, is a solemn day of fasting and atonement. But when it’s over, fast turns to feast.
A Sikh independence advocate who was killed two months ago in western Canada is at the center of a widening breach between the Indian and Canadian governments.
A Catholic church leader says the Vatican is considering the findings of a church investigation into “very serious and deeply distressing” child sexual abuse allegations against a former Australian bishop.
Tensions between Canada and India have reached new heights with dueling diplomatic expulsions and an allegation of Indian government involvement in the killing of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil.
India has expelled a senior Canadian diplomat and is accusing Canada of interfering in its internal affairs.
Canada has expelled a top Indian diplomat as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called credible allegations of ties to the assassination of a Sikh activist in Canada.
A lawsuit filed by an Islamic civil rights group challenges the constitutionality of the government’s terror watchlist and says Muslims face negative repercussions even after they are able to clear their name off the list.