RELIGION

For decades, Missouri executions played out in similar fashion: An inmate was strapped to a gurney in a drab room, alone except for the eyes of witnesses staring through thick glass as unidentified executioners administered the lethal chemical from behind a cinderblock wall.

A Buddhist temple has been extensively damaged by fire in the Australian city of Melbourne.

Pope Francis, the head of the Anglican Communion and the top Presbyterian minister are speaking on LGBTQ rights.

Pope Francis has made a final appeal for peace in South Sudan.

Pope Francis says South Sudan's future depends on how it treats its women.

Pope Francis is warning South Sudan’s political leaders that history will judge them harshly if they continue to drag their feet implementing a 2018 peace accord.

President Joe Biden attended the annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday in Washington and delivered a message of unity.

Ayahuasca is a psychedelic tea whose roots go back hundreds of years to ceremonial use by Indigenous groups in the Amazon rainforest.

Growing numbers of people are flocking to U.S. churches that center their practice around a bitter psychedelic tea known as ayahuasca.

Pope Francis has led Congo’s young people in a rousing denunciation of political corruption.

Mourners at the Sydney funeral for Australian Cardinal George Pell have remembered him as a victim of a campaign to punish him regardless of his guilt.

A study has revealed new details about what the ancient Egyptians used to mummify their dead.

Local climate activists in Congo are hoping Pope Francis’ visit will help spur action to protect the country’s rainforest from oil and gas interests.

Devotees in Ireland are marking the feast day of St. Brigid of Kildare.

On his trip to Congo, Pope Francis has heard firsthand accounts of atrocities some people have endured during years of fighting in the eastern part of the country.

Mourners are paying their respects to Cardinal George Pell in a Sydney cathedral before the funeral of a polarizing church leader who was once the most senior Roman Catholic convicted of sex abuse.

Gov. Tim Walz has enshrined the right to abortion and other reproductive health care into Minnesota statutes.

A letter written by an enslaved person in Virginia 300 years ago seeking freedom is part of a new exhibition exploring the Church of England's historic links to slavery.

Doug Emhoff, the husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, has met Ukrainian refugees at a Berlin synagogue and visited the city’s Holocaust memorial as he wraps up a tour of Poland and Germany focused on Holocaust remembrance and combating rising antisemitism.

Indiana’s high court says it will not immediately consider a challenge to the state’s abortion ban that is based on the argument that the law violates some people’s religious freedoms, leaving that decision to an appeals court, at least for now.

In Mexico City, it is the busy season for the craftsman who can repair Catholic families' beloved but broken baby Jesus figurines.

Pope Francis is demanding that foreign powers stop plundering Africa’s natural resources.

The National Prayer Breakfast is one of the most visible and long-standing events that brings religion and politics together in Washington.

The husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says he was deeply moved by a “solemn and sad” visit to the former site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

Pope Francis has clarified his comments about homosexuality and sin.

When Pope Francis arrives in Congo and South Sudan next week, thousands of people will take special note of a gesture more grounded than the sign of the cross.

For more than 100 years, people came to the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard to work in coal mines.

A coronavirus-denying former Russian Orthodox monk has been given a seven-year sentence on charges of inciting hatred.

The Colorado baker who won a partial U.S. Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple’s wedding cake because of his Christian faith has lost an appeal in his latest legal fight.

Social life in the Norwegian village of Longyearbyen — hemmed in by mountains, a glacier and a fjord on a remote Arctic island — has long revolved around its only church.

Pope Francis says there's a risk that a reform process in the German church could become “ideological."

A Jewish group that commissioned a survey on Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands says the results show “a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust.”.

Pope Francis is lamenting that the use of guns by civilians to defend themselves is becoming a “habit.”.

Pope Francis says he hasn’t even considered issuing norms to regulate future papal resignations.

Pope Francis has criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are.

An exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial brings back to Germany a diverse set of everyday objects that Jews took with them when they fled the Nazis.

Outrage over a Quran-burning protest in Sweden produced a second day of protests in Turkey.

Administrators of a trust fund established to preserve historic Black churches in the United States have revealed the first 35 houses of worship that will receive financial grants totaling $4 million.

Rio de Janeiro has opened the doors to a Holocaust Memorial that honors not only Jewish victims, but also lesser-known groups likewise persecuted by the Nazi regime, including artists, anarchists, masons, Roma people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay people and the disabled.

A man who says he was repeatedly sexually abused as a teen by his Catholic priest more than two decades ago is suing the now-defrocked priest and the Archdiocese of Denver.

A group of religious leaders who support abortion rights has filed a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s abortion ban, saying lawmakers openly invoked their religious beliefs while drafting the measure and thereby imposed those beliefs on others who don’t share them.

The archbishop of Austria has confirmed that it was he who wrote a letter to the future Pope Benedict XVI urging him to accept election as pontiff in 2005 if the votes went his way.

Anti-abortion activists will have multiple reasons to celebrate — and some reasons for unease — when they gather Friday in Washington for the annual March for Life.

The Church of England says it will allow blessings for same-sex, civil marriages for the first time.

Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov cited his Russian Orthodox religion as the reason he did not participate in pregame warmups when the team wore Pride-themed jerseys and used sticks wrapped in rainbow Pride tape.

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Islamic extremists have claimed responsibility for a weekend bombing of a church in eastern Congo.

President Joe Biden has made a historical pilgrimage to what he calls “America’s freedom church” to mark Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

The Australian cardinal who decried the papacy of Pope Francis as a “catastrophe” is receiving tributes including from the pontiff himself at his funeral in St. Peter's Basilica.

A Minnesota university’s dismissal of a professor for including depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a global art course has put the small, private school at the center of a debate over how to include controversial material in college courses while respecting students’ personal relationship to the material.

The German singer tells BBC Newsbeat her chart success with Sam Smith has been a dream come true.

She’s a vegetarian recovering from a C-section. Her in-laws are bringing meals to "help" her and her husband, but they all contain meat.

Thursday on the "CBS Evening News," Scott Pelley sits down with five millennial Muslims to discuss what it's like being Muslim in America. One panelist explains why ISIS' actions go against the teachings of Islam.

Robber finds religion, turns himself in A robbery suspect in Louisiana has turned himself in for two crimes after religion turned him around. WAFB's Graham Ulkins reports.