The first North American-born pope, Leo XIV, has used a symbolic visit to Lampedusa, Italy's migrant gateway, to urge the ...

Pope Leo XIV has called on the Society of St Pius X, a group that has been at odds with the Vatican, urging it to abandon its ...

The idea of separating Church and State often seemed the norm in the United States, but a new report by an administration ...

Deaths are mounting in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, and a Nashville-based nonprofit is mobilising faith communities, animation, and local language messaging to save lives before fear ...

Pope Leo XIV is facing a challenge from traditionalist Roman Catholics, a splinter group supporting the traditional Latin Mass, which has announced plans to consecrate new bishops without papal ...

Daisaku Ikeda, who helped spread Buddhist thought around the world through Soka Gakkai — Japan's largest religious organization supported by celebrities and an ally of the Tokyo government, has died, ...

Attacks by Jews against Christians in the Holy Land could exceed those of 2025, according to a new 2026 report to the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue. The center reported that 155 incidents ...

Pope Francis ushered in 2025 with a New Year's Day Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, braving untypically cold weather in Rome, with a renewed appeal for followers to reject abortion. The Pope's address ...

From 2010 to 2020, the share of the population affiliated with any religion dropped at least 5 percentage points in 35 countries, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. It dropped ...

A Roman Catholic priest from Nigeria, Father Lawrence Iwuamadi, is the new academic dean of the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, just outside Geneva. It is not the first time ...

The U.S. Defense Department will no longer allow military service members to claim around 180 different religious traditions in their personnel records, leaving only 31 to choose from, and 22 of them ...

Pope Leo XIV has sent a message to the 8th Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held in Kazakhstan, and he invited the faithful of all religions to help build a future of peace, ...