Tag: Religion

The smooth election of Pope Leo XIV as the 267th pontiff reflected the careful groundwork laid by Pope Francis, who appointed 80 percent of the cardinals eligible to vote in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s dramatic decision to bomb Iranian nuclear sites last weekend invited many a warning that the United States shouldn’t stumble into Iran as it did with Iraq ...

Iran’s top Shiite cleric issued a religious decree against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday, an act some experts called an incitement to terrorism. The fatwa from Grand ...

Throughout his remarkable lifetime, the Rev. James Kelly has baptized thousands of people, married thousands more, ministered to the sick in hospitals, and traveled the world extensively. He became friends ...

Following the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a message on Truth Social endorsing regime change in Iran. Since announcing a cease-fire this week that ...

A Long Island firefighter ran into a burning Chabad to save a sacred Sefer Torah from the flames on Wednesday — as members of the local Jewish community raced to ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Israeli settlements in the West Bank, legal upsets for the U.S. trade war, and the Trump administration’s crackdown on elite universities. ...

In June 2017, Indian and Chinese troops stared each other down on the windswept Doklam plateau in Bhutan, beginning a standoff that lasted for 73 days. The trigger was a ...

While the world is abuzz about the political prospects of the first American-born head of the Vatican, far more consequential may be that Leo XIV is also the first Augustinian ...

When international delegations attended the European Commission’s conference on Syria on March 17, Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini, or Aga Khan V, attended alongside them. Addressing the conference, he reiterated his community’s ...