Church

Yitzhar man indicted for spitting toward Jerusalem church door

As he passed the church, the indictment alleges, he spat toward its door out of hatred for Christians and Arabs.

Illustration image of handcuffs on the hands of an arrested man, in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025.
Televangelist Jim Bakker attends the ceremony honoring BeBe Winans and CeCe Winans with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 20, 2011 in Hollywood, California.

Jim Bakker, TV preacher felled by scandals, dies at 86

An anti-Israel protest in New York City. Ilustrative.

Lawmakers, faith groups urge passage of Right to Worship Act on Capitol Hill

FILE PHOTO: A Russian Army officer leans to a case with relics of a medieval Russian prince Dmitry Donskoy during a citywide procession marking the Feast of the Moscow Saints in Moscow, Russia, September 6, 2026.

Russia sends recently discovered bones of medieval warrior prince to Ukraine front to boost morale


Archaeologists may have found lost remains of French musketeer d'Artagnan in Dutch church

The church had previously been identified as a possible resting place of the 17th-century soldier.

A view inside the Peter and Paul Church in Maastricht shows an excavation pit opened in the floor, where archaeologists believe they may have uncovered the skeletal remains of Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known as d’Artagnan, leader of King Louis XIV's musketeers, March 25, 2026.

Israeli court orders extremist to repay NIS 2.5m. over 2015 Galilee church arson

The ruling closes a long legal chapter in one of the most symbolically charged Jewish extremist attacks of the past decade.

Yinon Reuveni, one of the suspects of vandalizing the church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes in Tabgha, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, hears his verdict at the Nazareth Magistrate's Court on December 12, 2017.

Ilia II, Georgian Church leader who shaped national identity, dies at 93

Ilia II, the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, died on Tuesday after being hospitalized, said senior cleric Metropolitan Shio.

People pay their last respects to Georgia's late Patriarch Ilia II as his remains are carried to the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia March 18, 2026.

'Wealthy religous center': Mosaics, ancient Byzantine church discovered at Nitzana National Park

Dated to the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods (fifth to seventh century CE), the church is the sixth to be discovered at the site.

THE SITE of a 1,400 year old church at Nitzana National Park.

'A world that is ablaze': Pope Leo laments war, environmental destruction, in Ash Wednesday service

Before sprinkling ashes on the heads of participants, a sign of mortality, the pope said the ashes could represent "the weight of a world that is ablaze, of entire cities destroyed by war."

POPE LEO XIV puts ash on a faithful's head during the Ash Wednesday Mass at the Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome, Italy, February 18, 2026.

Marjorie Taylor Greene meets with Bethlehem mayor, decries alleged 'Christian prosecution'

Greene lauded Bethlehem for being the birthplace of Jesus, but condemned alleged "Christian persecution" occurring in the area.

MARJORIE TAYLOR Greene meets with Bethlehem Mayor Maher Canawati, February 15, 2026.

PA drafts constitution, omits Jewish ties to Jerusalem, calls for Sharia legal system

The draft constitution also called for the "right of return" for refugees, caring for families of "martyrs, prisoners, and exiles," and reaffirming the PLO's position as representing Palestinians.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general Conference of Fatah Youth in Ramallah, with a backdrop including a portrait of Abbas and Yasser Arafat, November 27, 2025; illustrative.

A church was targeted in name of justice. Jews know where that leads - opinion

Since the murder of George Floyd at the hands of White police touched off a national firestorm in 2020, Minneapolis-St. Paul has become the symbol of a larger culture war.

Law enforcement officials stand guard, in front of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, during a protest more than a week after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, January 17, 2026.

A desecration: A church inside Birkenau is a violation of Holocaust memory - opinion

To honor the victims of Auschwitz, we cannot allow a church to stand where over a million Jews were killed.

A CROSS is seen in the German death camp Auschwitz II Birkenau.

NJ church deletes video of antisemitic pageant, says critics took it ‘out of context'

St. Mary Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s pageant, known as a vertep, featured an antagonist named Moshko who danced with the devil while wearing faux Hasidic garb.

A Ukrainian church in Connecticut advertised its 2026 Christmas vertep using a poster featuring a Jewish caricature that has drawn criticism as antisemitic.