Health officials say Israeli strikes in Gaza City overnight and at a refugee camp have killed more than 40 people, including 19 women and children.

Israeli strikes have killed at least 14 people overnight in Gaza City, according to health officials.

The Vatican’s “trial of the century” is heading into the appeals phase.

The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians has defended his 2019 decision to recognize an independent church in Ukraine.

Sept. 19 carries a unique significance in Mexico: on this very date — 32 years apart — two powerful earthquakes struck the country, killing thousands and toppling buildings.

For Jews worldwide, the High Holy Days are always a compelling mix of celebration and repentance.

New York’s iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral is unveiling a massive new mural that honors the city’s immigrants.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica is ready to raise its immense central tower over the coming months and become the tallest Christian church in Europe.

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For the Boy Scouts of America — recently renamed Scouting America — the past 12 years have been challenging.

Israeli forces are pressing on with a new ground offensive in Gaza City as strikes overnight across the Palestinian territory killed at least 16 people, including women and children.

Israeli troops and tanks are pushing deeper into Gaza City as more people flee the devastated area.

The leader of the Unification Church has been questioned by investigators over allegations that the church bribed the wife of South Korea's jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker close to him in an effort to secure business favors.

Aid workers saved thousands of priceless archaeological artifacts in Gaza from destruction last week after Israel targeted the warehouse building in a strike.

A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Israeli forces have launched a new ground offensive in Gaza City, with heavy strikes reported across the area.

Israel has launched its offensive in Gaza City, vowing to overwhelm a city already in ruins from nearly two years of war.

The mother of James Foley, the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Syria in 2014, has told her story of loss and healing at a Vatican vigil attended by Pope Leo XIV.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, is making his first visit in four years to the United States.

Israel and the United States have shown a unified front amid international anger over Israel’s airstrikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar and its bombardment of Gaza City.

The mother of a 10-year-old girl killed during a mass shooting in a Catholic church in Minneapolis has remembered her as a sharp, curious and funny child who “didn’t water herself down.”.

The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up is celebrating his 70th birthday with gospel music and a balloon release outside his boyhood home.

Qatar's prime minister has denounced Israel as Arab and Muslim foreign ministers are meeting to discuss a unified response to Israel's attack on Doha.

Pope Leo XIV has marveled at the “huge learning curve” he has taken on as pontiff and likened some aspects of the job to jumping “in on the deep end of the pool very quickly.”.

Residents of Santiago de Compostela are struggling with overtourism.

Palestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra has told The Associated Press that Israeli soldiers have conducted a raid at his home in the occupied West Bank.

Students who witnessed Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley University are reckoning with trauma and grief.

Israel has intensified airstrikes in Gaza City, killing at least 32 people, including 12 children, according to medical staff.

Ghana's fantasy coffins are unique creations that embody the essence of a person's life.

Prosecutors say the 22-year-old man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University has been charged with capital murder.

The family of the young Utah man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk told authorities he had recently become “more political” and recounted a dinner table conversation where they discussed whether the conservative activist was spreading hate.

Some of the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic bishops and nuns on the front lines of America’s immigration conflict gathered in Washington to decry the Trump administration’s hard-line policies.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is making an impassioned plea for Americans and young people in particular to use the horror of Charlie Kirk’s public assassination as an inflection point to turn the country away from political violence and division.

A 22-year-old Utah man who was booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conservative activist’s provocative viewpoints and indicated to a family member that he was responsible for the shooting.

As Israel calls up tens of thousands of reservists for its invasion of Gaza City, a growing number of soldiers are saying no. There are no official figures, but newly formed groups are broadcasting their refusal to serve despite the risk of imprisonment.

The shooter who assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk and then vanished off a roof and into the woods is still at large more than 24 hours later.

Sister Vassa Larin is an American nun who is best known for teaching about the Eastern Orthodox faith to thousands of viewers on YouTube.

There’s a new Bachelorette in town, and we’ve met her before.

A New York federal indictment has charged the longtime head of a Mexican megachurch with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in Gaza.

After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world has roared back to life at a monastery in Jerusalem’s Old City.

In each “Knives Out” movie, Johnson has assembled some of his favorite actors and managed to give nearly all of them a moment to shine.

Israel has struck and destroyed another high-rise building in Gaza City after warning residents to evacuate as part of an offensive aimed at taking over the largest Palestinian city.

Doug Wilson was once a fringe pastor in Idaho and is now a significant voice in the Christian right.

As Chicago braces for an influx of federal immigration agents and possibly National Guard troops, churches citywide are turning up their response from the pulpit.

Pope Leo XIV has declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint.

In Bolivia’s Yungas region, farmers like Tomas Zavala perform rituals to honor Mother Earth before harvesting coca leaves.

Over 1,000 LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families have participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome.

The Israeli army has issued evacuation orders and targeted high-rise buildings in famine-stricken Gaza City.

National conservatism is reshaping the Republican Party in President Donald Trump’s second term.

Israel has struck a high-rise building in Gaza City after warning residents to evacuate.

Members of California’s Sikh trucking community say a deadly crash involving one of its own has led to a spike in anti-Sikh rhetoric.

Pope Leo XIV will preside over his first canonization ceremony Sunday to create the first millennial saint.

The Ukrainian government has declared that a branch of the Orthodox Church has failed to sever all ties with Moscow — and could soon be banned.

The shooter who killed two children and injured 21 others at a Minneapolis church was seen on video visiting a suburban gun shop the weekend before the attack.

Vice President JD Vance has visited Minneapolis to meet with families affected by a deadly church shooting.

The United Arab Emirates has warned that any Israeli move to annex the occupied West Bank would be a “red line,” without specifying its possible impact on the landmark normalization accord between the two countries.

Israeli drones have dropped grenades near U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.

Israel is mobilizing tens of thousands of reservists as part of a gradual call-up tied to its expanded offensive in the Gaza Strip's largest city.

Israel has launched strikes across the Gaza Strip.

Pope Leo XIV has met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church.

Lebanon’s parliament speaker has criticized Washington’s push to quickly to disarm the Hezbollah militant group, and called instead for a calm national dialogue to determine “the fate of those weapons.”.

The Israeli military says it has killed the longtime spokesperson for Hamas’ armed wing.

Pope Leo XIV has demanded an end to the “pandemic of arms” during a public prayer for victims of a shooting at a Catholic school Mass in the United States.

Handmade cards from classmates are helping to comfort an 11-year-old girl who was wounded in this week's shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ office is urging the U.S. to reverse its decision to revoke his visa.

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An official tells The Associated Press that Israel plans to slow or halt humanitarian aid in parts of 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.

Geoffrey Hinton is sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence.

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.

Israeli airstrikes have hit the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, targeting areas controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group.

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.

Israeli and U.S. officials are meeting in Washington to discuss post-war 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.

“Frankenstein” may be the culmination of Guillermo del Toro’s artistic life.

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.

The oldest surviving place of worship for Muslims in the United States was erected in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, almost a century ago by immigrants from present-day Lebanon.

Authorities in Kenya have exhumed five bodies from shallow graves near a site where over 400 bodies were found two years ago.

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.

Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice.

China has marked 60 years of Communist Party rule in Tibet with a parade and speeches in front of the Potala Palace.

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."

Israel has given final approval for a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut the occupied West Bank in two.

The Israeli military says it plans to call up tens of thousands of reservists for an expanded operation in Gaza City.