Religion

Pope Francis attends a Mass for the feast of the Epiphany earlier this month in Vatican City.

Pope Francis says homosexuality is not a crime in a new interview

2:00pm January 25, 2023

by Sylvia Poggioli

He stressed that lack of charity with one another is also a sin and added that the Catholic Church should work to put an end to laws in some countries that criminalize homosexuality.

Abortion-rights protesters shout into the Senate chamber in the Indiana Capitol on July 25, 2022, about a month after Roe was overturned, in Indianapolis.

Most Americans say overturning Roe was politically motivated, NPR/Ipsos poll finds

5:00am January 22, 2023

by Laura Benshoff

An NPR/Ipsos poll finds that most Americans say Supreme Court justices are guided more by their politics than the law, and that lawmakers aren't deciding abortion policy based on public sentiment.

This handout negative dated on April 20, 1943, and taken by Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski shows Jewish people being evacuated from the Warsaw Ghetto.

A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found

2:29pm January 21, 2023

by The Associated Press

The photos were taken inside the Warsaw Ghetto by a 23-year-old Polish firefighter as the Nazis were brutally crushing the Jewish uprising of 1943. The photos were discovered in a family collection.

Protesters at the March for Life on Jan. 20, 2023, in Washington D.C.

At the first March for Life post-Roe, anti-abortion activists say fight isn't over

8:35pm January 20, 2023

Seven months after overturning the constitutional right to an abortion, anti-abortion rights activists are celebrating their victories and planning their next steps at their annual march in D.C

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Sister André poses for a portrait at the Sainte Catherine Laboure care home in Toulon, southern France, on April 27, 2022. With her death, the oldest living person is now Maria Branyas Morera of Spain at age 115.

The world's oldest person, Sister André of France, dies at age 118

11:04am January 18, 2023

by Kaitlyn Radde

Born Lucile Randon in 1904, Sister André spent most of her life in religious service as a Roman Catholic nun. The oldest living person is now Maria Branyas Morera of Spain at age 115.

A mannequin's head is covered in a woman dress shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022.

Kabul's mannequins hooded and masked under Taliban rules

2:12am January 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women's dress shops across the Afghan capital are a puzzling sight, their heads sometimes covered in silk, cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags.

Biden is the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

Biden becomes the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday sermon at MLK's church

6:52pm January 15, 2023

by Giulia Heyward

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served as a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta until his assassination.

A police vehicle sits near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, on Jan. 16, 2022. Four people were held hostage at the synagogue for more than 10 hours by a gunman before being freed, one of a spate of antisemitic acts that took place last year.

Anti-Defamation League survey finds a spike in antisemitic beliefs

9:48pm January 12, 2023

by Lisa Hagen

The percentage of Americans who believe in a number of antisemitic tropes has spiked in the past three years, according to the results of a recent survey by the Anti-Defamation League.

Amid abortion bans, Muslim Americans turn back to their faith's ruling on abortion

5:44pm January 11, 2023

by Linah Mohammad

Since the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion, many Muslims Americans have been turning to their faith to try to figure out: What does Islam say about abortion?

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Cardinal George Pell, center, the most senior Catholic cleric to face sex charges, leaves court in Melbourne, Australia, May 2, 2018. Pell, who was the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of child sex abuse before his convictions were later overturned, died on Tuesday in Rome at age 81.

Cardinal George Pell, whose sex abuse convictions were overturned, dies at 81

7:25pm January 10, 2023

by The Associated Press

Pell was the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of child sex abuse and spent 404 days in solitary confinement in his native Australia only to have his convictions overturned.