New York City’s Jewish community — the largest in the United States — is abounding with anxiety and friction a day ahead of an election that could give the city its first Muslim mayor.

Jewish and Catholic leaders have condemned a Halloween parade float in Pennsylvania that included a replica of the Auschwitz gate.

Concerns that antisemitism is on the rise among Republicans burst to the surface this weekend at a meeting in Las Vegas.

Long lines have formed at food pantries across the U.S. as federal food benefits were cut off due to the government shutdown.

Day of the Dead commemorations in early November are a crucial religious, family and community celebration for most Mexicans and many other Latin Americans.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria.

The FBI has confirmed that the man who opened fire in a Michigan church and set it ablaze was motivated by “anti-religious beliefs” against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

There’s been an unprecedented surge in the numbers of attendees at Sunday worship at the Quaker Arch Street Meeting House in Old City Philadelphia.

The Red Cross says it has transferred the unidentified remains of three people to Israel but an Israeli military official says they were still being examined and may not be those of missing hostages.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica has become the world’s tallest church.

Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has sparked a conversation about forgiveness after forgiving the man accused of assassinating her husband.

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico.

The Shrine of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic church a short drive from the White House, was intended to be a sanctuary for worshippers.

Imams around Morocco have read government-written sermons urging parents to involve their children in public affairs.

Hamas says it is expanding its search for the remains of hostages still left in Gaza.

A top American cardinal has celebrated a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has toured a U.S.-led coordination center in southern Israel.

Police in Pakistan say that three police officers have been killed when a powerful roadside bomb struck a police vehicle in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s northwest.

Authorities say Pakistan has banned a radical Islamist party behind recent violent protests that left at least one police officer and four civilians dead.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have visited the Vatican to pray with Pope Leo XIV.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is seeking to ease concerns in Israel that the Trump administration is dictating terms to its closest ally in the Middle East.

Netflix's “Nobody Wants This” became a surprise hit last year, topping charts and drawing millions of viewers.

Israel’s prime minister has toughened his stance by declaring his country is in charge of its own security and isn’t an American protectorate.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other envoys projected optimism about Gaza’s fragile ceasefire agreement during a visit to Israel even as they acknowledged significant challenges remain.

Israel’s military says Palestinian militants in Gaza have handed over another body of a hostage.

Pope Leo XIV has met with an organization of clergy abuse survivors and advocates for the first time.

Gaza's fragile ceasefire is facing its first major test.

Pope Leo XIV has canonized Venezuela's “doctor of the poor” before tens of thousands of people.

Israel says Hamas has handed over “two coffins of deceased hostages” from Gaza.

The Catholic Church and Church of England are taking a historic step toward unity.

Israel has received the coffin of a missing hostage handed over to the Red Cross from Hamas.

British officials are working to overturn a decision preventing Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending a Europa League soccer game at Aston Villa.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the use of hunger as a weapon of war during an address to a U.N. agency.

The Vatican’s child protection board says the Catholic Church has a moral duty to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal.

Mourners in Jerusalem gathered at Capt. Daniel Peretz’s funeral, where Matan Angrest, a recently released hostage, paid his respects.

Israel has received the remains of two more hostages after they were transferred by the Red Cross from Hamas.

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The tenuous ceasefire in Gaza is holding after the release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners and detainees, but uncertainties remain.

Lebanon’s president says his country and Israel should negotiate to solve pending problems between them since war didn't lead to any positive results.

The Vatican has taken the unusual step of announcing that it had named judges to decide the fate of a famous ex-Jesuit artist accused of sexually, spiritually and psychologically abusing women.

Across Israel, it's a day of joy and tears with families, loved ones and friends waiting anxiously as Hamas began releasing the last living hostages held captive for over two years in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas has released all 20 remaining hostages as part of a ceasefire agreement with Israel, ending two years of conflict in the Gaza Strip.

Israel and Hamas have taken a significant step in the ceasefire agreement for the Gaza war by releasing hostages and prisoners.

Survivors and family members of Palestinian attacks in Israel have faced a wrenching dilemma throughout the war.

New drone footage shows what remains of Gaza City after two years of war as a ceasefire holds in its second day.

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are returning to neighborhoods in Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is in its second day.

Statistically, attending a weekly worship service is a remarkably safe thing to do.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are starting to walk north to return to their homes after the Israeli military said the ceasefire agreement with Hamas came into effect at noon local time and that troops were withdrawing to the agreed-upon deployment lines.

Early on Sunday mornings, tolling bells call the faithful to worship at the three churches in Taybeh.

South Korean investigators on Friday have indicted the 82-year-old leader of the Unification Church, Hak Ja Han, over allegations that she instructed church officials to bribe the wife of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker close to him.

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved chaplain for Loyola Chicago's men's basketball team, has died at 106.

Pope Leo XIV has urged labor union leaders from Chicago to advocate for immigrants and welcome minorities into their ranks.

Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it attacked a Buddhist festival held on the grounds of a school earlier this week.

Palestinians in Gaza have welcomed the news of an agreement on the first phase of a peace plan between Israel and Hamas.

Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

Israel’s Cabinet has approved President Donald Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of all the remaining hostages held by Hamas, a key step toward ending a ruinous two-year war that has destabilized the Middle East.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to pause in their devastating two-year war and the release of the remaining hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

Counter terrorism police in Britain say that the assailant in last week's attack on a synagogue in the city of Manchester that left two people dead had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown has met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.

President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first Phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners.

Sukkot, the Jewish holiday celebrating the traditional gathering of the harvest, has begun.

Pope Leo XIV will visit Turkey and Lebanon next month on his first foreign trip as pope.

It’s been two years since thousands of Hamas-led militants poured into southern Israel after a surprise barrage of rockets.

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Israelis are mourning the dead and fearing for the remaining hostages as they mark two years since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack plunged the region into a devastating war.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked Pope Leo XIV to help maintain peace in Venezuela.

Israeli authorities say they have deported another 171 activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla, including Greta Thunberg.

Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions.

Police are investigating a hate crime after a mosque was set on fire in an English coastal town.

Israeli and Hamas officials are holding indirect talks in an Egyptian resort on a U.S. peace plan for Gaza.

Sukkot, a week-long Jewish holiday celebrating the traditional gathering of the harvest, is getting underway.

Activists detained while trying to reach Gaza by sea have complained of mistreatment by Israeli guards.

Thousands have gathered in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa for the East African country’s thanksgiving festival.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed the Rev. Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop on Saturday, marking a historic moment for the predominantly white denomination.

Manchester is facing the latest tragedy to befall the city with a mix of defiance and shock.

U.K. police have arrested six people on suspicion of terror offenses after an attack on a synagogue in northwest England.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has convened for its twice-annual general conference at a pivotal moment in its history.

Hundreds of mourners gathered in wind and rain for a vigil that combined grief and defiance in the remembrance of two men who were killed when a knife-wielding assailant attacked their synagogue in the English city of Manchester.

For the first time, a woman will serve as the Archbishop of Canterbury, following the 105 men who have held the role since St. Augustine took that position in the year 597.

“House of David” premieres its second season on Sunday, and star Michael Iskander, who plays the titular role, is hoping it has the same success as its debut.

Zohran Mamdani’s rise in New York City’s mayoral race has brought him national prominence and a surge of anti-Muslim vitriol, including from elected officials and prominent conservatives.

Israeli forces have intercepted the last boat from an international flotilla trying to break Israel’s sea blockade of war-ravaged Gaza as protesters around the world rally against Israeli actions and the arrests of some 450 activists who were on the boats.

British police say one of the two men killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in the city of Manchester may have been killed by a bullet fired by a police officer.

Sarah Mullally, the bishop of London, has been named Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been chosen as the spiritual leader of the Church of England.

Authorities say a Texas megachurch founder has pleaded guilty to lewd and indecent acts with a child after he was accused of sexually abusing a young girl in the 1980s in Oklahoma while he was a traveling minister.

A fundraiser for the family members of the man who opened fire in a Michigan church and set it ablaze has raised over $275,000.

The next president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn't a surprise.

Hospitals say that Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 57 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

A man drove a car into people outside a synagogue in England and stabbed two of them to death on the holiest day of the Jewish year.

Indonesian rescue authorities have made the tough decision to start using heavy machinery to move large sections of a school that collapsed earlier this week, with no more signs of life from beneath the rubble.

Andrew Cuomo is apologizing to New York City’s Jewish community for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic when he was governor.

The sacred bones of a much-loved French Carmelite nun began a tour of the U.S. at a suburban Detroit parish named in her honor.

An appeals court in Qatar has overturned the conviction of Remy Rowhani, leader of the country’s small Baha’i community.

Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza say the Israeli navy intercepted at least 19 of their boats as they approached the besieged Palestinian territory.

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Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church.

Israel’s defense minister has ordered all remaining Palestinians to leave Gaza City, saying it is their “last opportunity.”.

Indonesian rescue workers are racing against the clock in the search for survivors from a school collapse in the province of East Java.