by News Feed Editor | Mar 9, 2026 | Religion
Iran has named a son of its late supreme leader as his successor. U.S. President Donald Trump already had expressed disdain for Mojtaba Khamenei, calling him “unacceptable.” The Islamic Republic’s war strategy now has a new commander, and the powerful paramilitary...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 9, 2026 | Religion
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Living in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, Mohammed Mahmoud enjoys a privilege other Muslims around the world can only dream about: the ability to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque every day. For the first two weeks of Ramadan, Mahmoud, who...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 9, 2026 | Religion
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s police commissioner said Monday that authorities are investigating whether men who brought improvised explosive devices to a protest outside New York City’s mayoral residence were inspired by ISIS. The devices, which did not...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 8, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — At least once a week, relief workers from Jesuit Refugee Service Mexico see a grim routine: Newly arrived deportees step off planes in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, near Mexico’s southern border, still wearing gray detention uniforms issued in the United States....
by News Feed Editor | Mar 7, 2026 | Religion
VATICAN CITY (RNS) – Pope Leo XIV appointed Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, the Holy See’s representative to the United Nations, the new papal nuncio to the United States, the Vatican announced Saturday (March 7). He will replace Cardinal Christophe Pierre, who...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 6, 2026 | Religion
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) — The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is tired of hearing that his church is doomed. The denomination has lost about half of its baptized membership since the 1960s, declining to about 1.5 million adherents today, and still faces...
