February 23, 2025, 6:00am Churches & Religion
The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death. Read story
February 22, 2025, 6:04am Churches & Religion
“It’s an eggs-ellent day,” Pastor John Ptak said as an orderly line formed and a light drizzle fell outside the White Knoll, S.C., campus of Radius Church on Thursday morning. Read story
February 22, 2025, 6:01am Churches & Religion
In a warehouse in Haiti, nearly four metric tons of seeds cannot be distributed. Soon the planting season will be gone and with it, the best chance for those seeds to produce emergency food. Read story
February 21, 2025, 1:45pm Churches & Religion
All that remains of Masjid Al-Taqwa is a sign that bears its name. Read story
February 21, 2025, 7:46am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis marked the one-week point Friday in his hospital stay, getting up and out of bed to eat breakfast as the 88-year-old pontiff continued fighting pneumonia and a complex respiratory infection, the Vatican said. Read story
February 20, 2025, 2:50pm Churches & Religion
A Vancouver woman is suing New Heights Church of Southwest Washington, alleging she was sexually abused and exploited by a pastor in the late 1990s and early 2000s and that the church failed to protect her. Read story
February 20, 2025, 9:43am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis continued his recovery from pneumonia on Thursday, eating breakfast out of bed and working with his aides at the hospital as some of his cardinals cheered him on and insisted that Catholic Church was very much alive and well even in his absence. Read story
February 19, 2025, 8:46am Churches & Religion
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis in the hospital Wednesday and reported he was “alert and responsive” and full of good humor, despite his diagnosis of pneumonia and a complicated bronchial infection that has sidelined the 88-year-old pontiff for six days. Read story
February 18, 2025, 4:29pm Churches & Religion
Catholic bishops sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its abrupt halt to funding of refugee resettlement, calling the action unlawful and harmful to newly arrived refugees and to the nation’s largest private resettlement program. Read story
February 18, 2025, 8:22am Churches & Religion
The Vatican on Tuesday canceled papal audiences through the weekend and delegated others to cover for Pope Francis as the 88-year-old pope remained hospitalized with a multi-pronged respiratory infection. Read story