Israel plans to slow or halt humanitarian aid in northern Gaza as it expands its offensive against Hamas.
As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious.
Israel says Gaza City is now considered a dangerous combat zone as it begins the initial stages of a planned offensive that has drawn international condemnation.
Stories of bravery and heartache are emerging after the deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church during a Mass celebrating the start of the school year.
The director of the U.N. World Food Program says it's “very evident” after a visit to Gaza that there is not enough food and that mothers and children are starving.
Investigators in Minneapolis say the shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded 18 other people inside a church was obsessed with the idea of killing defenseless children.
The pews of a Minneapolis church were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren paired with older ‘buddies’ listening to a prayer on their third day of the new school year.
An Amish woman is accused of killing her 4-year-old son by throwing him into an Ohio lake as a test of her faith.
Pope Leo XIV is demanding that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.
An Orthodox archbishop who exchanged friendly greetings and gifts with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska is apologizing to “those who have experienced pain, suffering, or confusion" because of his actions.
The Israeli military says its double strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is accusing Iran of directing at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia and says the country is cutting off diplomatic relations in response.
A judge has denied a request from a network of Maine clinics to force the federal government to restore Medicaid funding.
Israel struck one of the main hospitals in the Gaza Strip and then hit the facility again as journalists and rescue workers rushed to the scene.
Hospital officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes and gunfire have killed at least 33 Palestinians sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food aid.
Pope Leo XIV has affirmed the right of people to return to their homes after an unjust exile.
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has resumed its eruption by shooting an arc of lava high into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor.
In Cedar Rapids, Grant Wood painted “American Gothic,” the iconic portrait of a man and a woman standing in front of a white frame house.
James Dobson, a child psychologist who founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, has died at age 89.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will give final approval for the takeover of Gaza City while also restarting negotiations with Hamas aimed at returning all the remaining hostages and ending the war on Israel’s terms.
Parents of the 27 campers and counselors killed when floodwaters rushed through a girl's summer camp in the Texas Hill Country pleaded with lawmakers to pass a bill that would boost camp safety.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Texas from requiring nearly a dozen public school districts across the state to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
French President Emmanuel Macron has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks that Macron is fueling antisemitism by pledging to recognize a Palestinian state as "abject" and "erroneous."
An American Orthodox archbishop exchanged warm greetings and gifts of holy icons with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
A Muslim matchmaking show on Hulu and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s comments about meeting his wife on a dating app provide a glimpse into the diverse ways American Muslims find their spouses.
Pope Leo XIV is spending the last Sunday of his summer vacation with several dozen homeless and poor people and the church volunteers who help them.
Israeli protesters demanding a deal to free hostages in Gaza have attempted to shut down the country in one of the largest and fiercest protests in 22 months of war.
Israel says it is preparing to move Palestinians from combat zones to southern Gaza as plans move ahead for a military offensive in some of the territory’s most populated areas.
Pope Leo XIV is marking his first 100 days in office, showing a mix of continuity with and change from Pope Francis' papacy.
A video widely circulated on Friday shows Israel’s far-right national security minister admonishing a Palestinian leader face-to-face inside a prison, saying Israel will confront anyone who acts against the country and “wipe them out.”.
Orthodox Christians across Alaska are taking part in three days of prayer for peace, ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Israel’s far-right finance minister says a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is going ahead, a project that Palestinians and rights groups worry will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state by effectively cutting the West Bank into two separate parts.
The leader of the small Baha’i community in Qatar has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges alleging that posts on Baha’i social media accounts “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion."
Health officials and witnesses say Israeli gunfire killed at least 25 people while seeking aid.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hinting that ceasefire efforts are now focused on a comprehensive deal that would release the remaining hostages in Gaza all at once.
Syrian, U.S. and Jordanian officials say they will work together toward a permanent ceasefire in a southern Syrian region wracked by deadly sectarian clashes last month that threatened the country’s fragile security in the wake of its yearslong civil war.
President Javier Milei of Argentina is helping to launch a $1 million initiative to improve diplomatic relations between Israel and several Latin American countries.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has expressed pride in being part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a conservative Christian network.
Local health officials in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed at least 55 people overnight, including a well-known journalist who Israel said was a militant and people who witnesses say were seeking humanitarian aid.
Israel’s military has targeted and killed an Al Jazeera correspondent and others with an airstrike as they sheltered outside a Gaza City hospital.
An Islamic court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province has sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, for what the court deemed were sexual acts: hugging and kissing.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended a new military offensive in Gaza that’s more sweeping than previously announced.
A U.N. report says dozens of its female Afghan staff have received death threats related to their work.
Faith leaders in Southern California have been supporting immigrant communities during increased immigration arrests and raids.
Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Cambodia have held a religious ceremony to honor soldiers killed in recent border clashes with Thai forces and to pray for peace.
Israeli airline El Al says its Paris office has been vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti in what it has called a “deeply disturbing” incident.
When Alaska Natives debate proposals to drill and mine the landscape of the nation’s largest state, it involves more than an environmental or economic question.
Every August, thousands of pilgrims travel to Copacabana, a Bolivian town on the shores of Lake Titicaca, to honor Our Lady of Copacabana, one of Mary's titles and a revered figure believed to grant miracles.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hinting at wider military action in devastated Gaza even as some former army and intelligence chiefs call for an end to the war.
Witnesses and health officials say dozens of Palestinians have been killed or wounded as desperate crowds headed toward food distribution points or airdrops in Gaza.
Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has led prayers at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, sparking international condemnation.
New outbreaks of violence overnight into Sunday have rocked Syria at two distinct flashpoints, straining a fragile ceasefire and calling into question the ability of the transitional government to exert its authority across the whole country.
A far-right Israeli minister has visited and prayed at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, sparking regional condemnation.
Pope Leo XIV has told over a million Catholic youths they are a sign that a different world is possible.
Witnesses and health workers say Israeli forces opened fire near two aid distribution sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as crowds of hungry Palestinians sought food.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy has visited a food distribution site in the Gaza Strip operated by an Israeli-backed American contractor whose efforts to deliver food to the hunger-stricken territory have been marred by violence and controversy.
Plans announced by France, the United Kingdom and Canada to recognize a Palestinian state won’t bring one about anytime soon, though they could isolate Israel and strengthen the Palestinians' negotiating position over the long term.
A survivor of clergy sex abuse in Peru brought her public campaign for reform to the American hometown of Pope Leo XIV.
A growing number of Jewish Americans are urging Israel to ensure humanitarian aid reaches Gaza, though the ongoing war with Hamas remains a tension point.
French government ministers say a summer camp counselor has accused Spanish police of using brute force against her during the removal of a group of French Jewish teenagers from a plane bound for Paris from Spain.
Demonstrators calling for an end to the war in Gaza have protested the arrival of an Israeli cruise ship on another Greek island.
Pope Leo XIV has surprised tens of thousands of young Catholics by showing up unexpectedly at a Holy Year welcome ceremony.
Faith leaders across the U.S. are hoping a bipartisan bill in Congress might finally provide relief to an immigration issue that has been vexing them for more than two years.
The Israeli military has intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship, detaining 21 international activists and journalists and seizing all cargo, including baby formula, food, and medicine, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
Long-festering tensions over border territory have escalated into armed conflict between Cambodia and Thailand, leading to dozens of deaths on both sides and displacing tens of thousands of people.
After vandalism reports involving graffiti at a few mosques in Texas and California, Muslim leaders there have stepped up existing efforts to keep their sacred spaces and community members safe.
The Trump administration is investigating the Oregon Department of Education after receiving a complaint from a conservative non-profit group alleging the state was violating civil rights law by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government is considering “alternative options” to ceasefire talks with Hamas.
Academics around the country are raising alarm about growing efforts to define antisemitism on terms pushed by the Trump administration.
