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The U.S. Department of Defense is introducing a course on Western civilization and Christianity this fall in its schools serving military families, part of efforts by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to emphasize patriotic values and classical learning.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi avoided visiting Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine on the 81st anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender, though other government officials attended the controversial site that commemorates war dead including convicted war criminals.
A 55.6-meter statue of the Virgin Mary, believed to be Europe’s tallest, was inaugurated in a small Polish village in the presence of former anti-communist leader Lech Walesa.
A man has been charged with hate crimes after disrupting Shabbat services at a Manhattan synagogue and assaulting two people on Friday night, according to police.
A stampede at a Hindu temple in eastern India killed seven people and injured more than a dozen, while a hotel fire in West Bengal killed at least seven others during a major religious observance period.
The Vatican excommunicated all members of the ultra-conservative Society of Saint Pius X after the group ordained bishops without papal consent, marking the first major clash between the church and the rebel group since 1988.
