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Yom Kippur is the most important holiday in the Jewish religion.

Father Thomas Rausch explains what an exorcism is in the Catholic Church, where demonology developed and how often exorcisms actually happen.

A religious leader in the Hindu community is asking Baskin-Robbins for an apology, accusing the ice cream giant of “non-disclosure of beef” in one of its popular ice cream flavors, and asking that it recall the product from stores and grocery shelves.

A judge’s order requiring “religious-liberty training” by a conservative Christian group is stirring debate among legal scholars.

“People want to tell you, ‘You can’t do that,’” Grant says. “‘You can’t do drag in church. You can’t do drag, period.’ But I can.”

Pope Francis has announced World Youth Day is returning to Asia for the first time in three decades. He made the announcement Sunday at the end of his five-day trip to Portugal.

Pope Francis is challenging Europe to retake its role as a peacemaker and bridge builder. He made the comments as he arrived Wednesday in Portugal to open World Youth Day.

Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America. They even get more credence than hell. More than astrology, reincarnation, and the belief that physical things can have spiritual energies. In fact, about 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

The “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” star spoke about the moment he decided to seek help for drug addiction issues in the 1980s.

Sexual violence survivors and advocates will lead a panel discussion in San Francisco on Saturday in hopes of pushing church leaders across the Bay Area to do more in combating abuse. Senior Investigative Reporter Bigad Shaban will moderate the event and filed this preview.

Advocates and survivors will take part in a panel discussion Saturday in San Francisco in hopes of pushing church leaders across the Bay Area to do more in combating sexual abuse.

Nikole Lim is the founder and international director of Freely In Hope, a nonprofit focused on empowering survivors of sexual violence with education and counseling. Lim will join sexual violence survivors on Saturday for a panel discussion in San Francisco that aims to push church leaders across the Bay Area to do more in combating abuse. Senior...

The Southern Baptist convention rejected an appeal from a California megachurch and the Fern Creek Baptist of Louisville, Kentucky.

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has died. He had an enormous impact on American politics and religion.

Bible-toting parents and Republican lawmakers convened on Utah’s Capitol to protest a suburban school district that recently announced it had removed the Bible from some schools.

The Bible has been banned at elementary and middle schools in one Utah school district after a committee decided it wasn’t age appropriate “due to vulgarity or violence.”

Hundreds of people visited a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019.

Illinois’ attorney general released the results of a sweeping investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy on Tuesday, saying investigators found that 451 clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950 — far more than the 103 individuals the church had named when the state review began in 2018.

A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window showing a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women has been rediscovered in a Rhode Island church.

A Pennsylvania grand jury in recent months accused nine men with connections to the Jehovah’s Witnesses of child sexual abuse in what some consider the nation’s most comprehensive investigation yet into abuse within the faith.