June 26, 2023, 8:00am Churches & Religion
Some 2 million Muslim pilgrims officially began the annual Hajj pilgrimage on Monday, making their way out of Mecca after circling Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba, and converging on a vast tent camp in the nearby desert for a day and night of prayer. Read story
June 24, 2023, 6:04am Churches & Religion
“Jeopardy!” fans were aghast on social media following the June 13 show during which all three contestants were at a loss when asked to complete a line of the Lord’s Prayer. Read story
June 24, 2023, 6:02am Churches & Religion
When Berlin Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal first talked about his dream of building Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust, most people who heard about the plan were skeptical. Read story
June 24, 2023, 6:02am Churches & Religion
In her years running Catholic youth programs in France, Sister Nathalie Becquart often invoked her own experience as a seasoned sailor in urging young people to weather the storms of their lives. “There’s nothing stronger than seeing the sunrise after a storm, the flat calm of the sea,” she says. Read story
June 24, 2023, 6:01am Churches & Religion
Moisés Vega has a distinctive job: The 64-year-old Mexican says he can speak the sacred language of volcanoes to ask for good weather and a good crop. Read story
June 22, 2023, 2:14pm Churches & Religion
Saudi Arabia has ambitious plans to welcome millions more pilgrims to Islam’s holiest sites. But as climate change heats up an already scorching region, the annual Hajj pilgrimage — much of which takes place outdoors in the desert — could prove even more daunting. Read story
June 20, 2023, 8:01am Churches & Religion
An unprecedented global canvassing of Catholics has called for the church to take concrete steps to promote women to decision-making roles, for a “radical inclusion” of the LGBTQ+ community and for new accountability measures to check how bishops exercise authority. Read story
June 18, 2023, 12:25pm Churches & Religion
This year’s Hajj is a landmark: the first full pilgrimage after a daunting three-year period when the COVID-19 pandemic sharply reduced the scale of one of Islam’s holiest and most beloved rites. Read story
June 17, 2023, 6:56am Churches & Religion
Pat Robertson united tens of millions of evangelical Christians through the power of television and pushed them in a far more conservative direction with the personal touch of a folksy minister. Read story
June 16, 2023, 8:26am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis was discharged Friday from the Rome hospital where he underwent abdominal surgery to repair a hernia and remove scarring from previous operations, with his surgeon saying the pontiff was “better than before” his nine-day hospitalization. Read story
