Religion

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill celebrates the Divine Liturgy for Christmas in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow on Jan. 6, 2022.

Faith, Freedom & Self-Reliance

What it means for Russia’s fight in Ukraine to be a ‘holy war’

Emily Hester and Ivana Stradner · July 31, 2025 6:00 am

In this photo taken Sunday June 28, 2015, Shi Yongxin, third from right in yellow and red robes, abbot of the Shaolin Temple, attends the opening ceremony of an urban zen center named Shaolin Chan Hall in Xi'an in northwest China's Shaanxi province.

China’s ‘CEO monk’ removed from Shaolin Monastery over alleged illicit relations, embezzlement

Timothy Nerozzi · July 29, 2025 12:27 pm

A Roman Catholic priest listens to a woman's confession as she kneels at right inside the St. Catherine's Church within the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

Faith, Freedom & Self-Reliance

The confessional is not a legal loophole for child abusers

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer · July 29, 2025 6:00 am

President Donald Trump has made religious freedom a key plank of his second administration.

Trump orders federal agencies to protect religious expression

Haisten Willis · July 28, 2025 3:37 pm

Islamic State-backed rebels attack a Catholic church in eastern Congo, killing at least 34

Associated Press · July 27, 2025 2:09 pm

The God that Failed Up: Review of ‘The Last Supper’ by Paul Elie

Art Tavana · July 25, 2025 12:25 am

Sanija Ameti, Co-President In Operation Libero, poses for a portrait on Nov.2, 2021, at Proger in Bern.

Swiss city councilor charged after shooting image of Jesus in social media video

Timothy Nerozzi · July 22, 2025 12:25 pm

Syria’s armed Bedouins say they have withdrawn from Druze-majority city after weeklong fighting

The Associated Press · July 20, 2025 11:50 pm

This Dec. 1, 2012 file photo shows a silhouette of a crucifix and a stained glass window inside a Catholic Church in New Orleans. On Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, a Louisiana state grand jury charged a now-91-year-old disgraced priest, Lawrence Hecker, with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1975, an extraordinary prosecution that could shed new light on what Roman Catholic Church leaders knew about a child sex abuse crisis that persisted for decades and claimed hundreds of victims.

Attendance plunges at Los Angeles Catholic churches as parishioners stay home to avoid ICE

Anna Giaritelli · July 20, 2025 7:00 am

FILE - This Dec. 1, 2012 file photo shows a silhouette of a crucifix and a stained glass window inside a Catholic Church in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Federal judge blocks anti-Catholic Washington law

Jack Birle · July 18, 2025 5:09 pm

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to journalists at Soroka Medical Center outside of a hospital building that was struck by an Iranian missile, Thursday, June 26, 2025 in Beersheba, Israel.

Huckabee decries ‘negative treatment’ of Evangelicals in Israel

Timothy Nerozzi · July 18, 2025 4:53 pm

Walter A. McDougall’s history of American power

Damir Marusic · July 18, 2025 4:20 am