The long-awaited and elusive ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has silenced bombs and halted air raids on the Gaza Strip, ...

Explore religious figures shaping global events in 2025. From influential leaders to rising voices, this four-part series ...

Israeli soldiers have been occupying the Palestinian city of Jenin in the West Bank for more than two weeks now. In an interview with L'Osservatore Romano, Fr Amer Jubran, parish priest of the ...

Greece’s government declared a state of emergency on Santorini on Thursday after hundreds of undersea earthquakes shook the ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad after a violent 13-year civil war was hailed as a new era for the embattled country, But, after just two months, many are fearful that they’ve just replaced one dangerous ...

Church volunteers in western Ukraine are the hub of a global network channeling provisions to war refugees and the front ...

when the Episcopal Church was the de facto faith of the American ruling class. JERUSALEM (AP) — As part of the ceasefire agreement, Israel said it would allow 600 aid trucks into Gaza each day ...

the Israeli military told residents of Gaza City, where more than 1 million people lived, to move south. Pictures showed people packing their belongings into cars, onto donkeys and into trucks as ...

Here’s what’s happening in the region beginning Thursday and continuing through Feb. 13: • Friday Women of Influence's "Night of Prose and Poetry," 6 to 8 p.m., Flood City Cafe, 137 Clinton St.; ...

was handed over later in Gaza City. All three were taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked the war. Eighteen hostages have now been released since the ceasefire ...