Religious Articles

Australian taxpayers could face up to $65 million in compensation payouts to abuse survivors if the Christian Brothers, a Catholic order, becomes unable to pay redress claims through insolvency.

The UK’s largest Muslim convention, Jalsa Salana, proceeded with heightened security amid rising anti-Muslim hate crimes, drawing approximately 50,000 attendees from over 100 countries.

Palestinian Americans in a West Bank village face escalating violence from Israeli settlers, with the US Embassy offering limited protection despite resident appeals for intervention.

Jordan convenes an emergency meeting of Arab and Islamic foreign ministers, warning of an imminent Israeli threat to al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock compound in Jerusalem, citing recent incursions by Jewish religious groups and settlers.

An AP journalist spent the night locked inside Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher with clergy and pilgrims, witnessing the shared worship space managed by Armenian Apostolic, Catholic, and Greek Orthodox churches.

A congressman and self-described humanist is releasing a book arguing that Christian nationalism poses the greatest threat to American democracy and that the nation has overlooked this movement’s role in political violence.

For over a century, Gideon Bibles have been placed in American hotel and motel rooms by Gideons International, an evangelical organization founded in 1899 that has distributed more than 2.5 billion Bibles worldwide.

Nearly 1,500 pages of documents released a year after the August 27, 2025 Minneapolis Catholic school shooting detail law enforcement’s rapid response but reveal little about the attacker’s motive.

The head of a Hindu nationalist group is scheduled to speak in New York City on Saturday, drawing protests, mayoral opposition, and calls for sanctions from a U.S. religious freedom commission.

Four men pleaded guilty to destroying four ambulances operated by a Jewish charity in a north London arson attack earlier this year that authorities investigated for potential extremist connections.

The Catholic Biblical Association elected Jewish scholar Amy-Jill Levine as its first Jewish president, drawing antisemitic backlash on social media despite widespread support from Catholic leadership and Christian colleagues.

Rastafarians in Kenya are mobilizing after a court dismissed their petition to decriminalize marijuana for religious purposes, with community members vowing to appeal the ruling.