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 ...

Pope Leo XIV has used a visit honoring St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, viewed as the first American saint and patron saint of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV led the Catholic faithful at the 2026 Good Friday Way of the Cross by carrying the Cross throughout the Colosseum in Rome. Leo became the second pope to carry the Cross for the entire Via ...

Pope Leo's first encyclical of his papacy asserted that artificial intelligence is not inherently immoral, but that its adoption should be slowed to enable the development of moral guardrails and it ...

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 ...

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, the 69-year-old Chicago-born cardinal elected as the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, spent many years as a missionary in Peru and is the first North American to hold the papacy. "Peace ...