Deb Robertson has become a leading advocate for end-of-life options in Illinois.

Castle Hills police have arrested a man who they say entered a woman's home and began showering. They say he used her house keys which she left in her unlocked car.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish families are an unmissable facet of Israeli life.

Campaigning for the U.S. Senate, Paxton says he was “delivered by God” to protect Texas from leftists. Talarico’s focus

One Somali family's long trek to escape drought conditions is an example of a deepening humanitarian emergency in Somalia, where years of drought, conflict and economic pressures are pushing more families from rural communities into displacement camps as hunger rises and humanitarian funding shrinks.

“We were all thinking to ourselves, this is déjà vu. Is it really happening, and can I deal with it?” a Center Point Volunteer Fire Department chaplain said.

Steve Harvey believes his success as an entertainer and author is a blessing from God, tied to his philanthropy.

The Pentagon’s recent revision to its list of Christian religions has reignited a long-standing debate about whether The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a Christian denomination.

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated the Sagrada Familia Basilica as a masterpiece of “stones, colors and light.”.

Traveling to Spain in June and France in September, Pope Leo XIV will find traditionally Catholic but now staunchly secular countries with an abundance of historic churches but few people in the pews.

The annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage, one of the Five Pillars of Islam, has begun.

President Donald Trump and several top administration officials are joining with a cast of mostly conservative Christian clergy this Sunday for a prayer gathering.

A Tennessee doctor is practicing reproductive medicine aligned with his Christian faith.

A funeral has been held in Louisiana for eight children who were killed in a mass shooting last month.

There’s long been debate over the intentions of America’s founders about the role of religion.

Pope Leo XIV has paid tribute to Pope Francis on Tuesday on the first anniversary of his death.

More than 1,000 workers have organized a protest in Haiti’s capital to demand a higher minimum wage as the conflict in Iran deepens and drives up oil prices.

The death of a man whose body was found burning in the brush along a busy Southeast Side road is being described as a great loss for the community.

The death of a man whose body was found burning in the brush along a busy Southeast Side road is being described as a great loss for the community.

A military veteran started a camp for children with incarcerated parents to provide them a place to feel loved, have fun and build relationships.

Hill Country Preparatory College High School remains on lockdown after a student shot a teacher on Monday morning.

Pope Leo XIV says no one can use God to justify war and he's praying especially for Christians in the Middle East.

Talarico has suggested he would communicate some of his views differently today, but stood by the principles behind the comments Republicans are using to tar him as an extreme liberal.

Love Rocks NYC brings major music stars together to raise money for God’s Love We Deliver as many nonprofits worry about increased food insecurity.

Colorado quarterback Dominiq Ponder has died in a single-car crash.

For many immigrant families in Minnesota, sending a child to school each day requires faith that one of the thousands of federal immigration officers deployed around the state won’t detain them.

The 68th annual Grammy Awards took placed Sunday in Los Angeles.

Catherine O’Hara's prodigious comic gifts were displayed in roles over five decades.

“There's nothing wrong with making people happy,” says singer John Mellencamp, and that's the guiding philosophy of the concert tour he's planning this summer.

Venezuelans remain in shock after President Nicolás Maduro was deposed and captured in a U.S. military operation.

The family of a missing 19-year-old girl is continuing search efforts nearly a week after she was last seen in far northwest Bexar County.

Decades of research show syringe programs are extremely effective at preventing infectious disease among intravenous drug users and referring them to treatment.

Christian influencers are reaching hundreds of thousands of young people online.

Pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai would devote himself to God and his family rather than political activism if he were released.

An Atlanta church with a viral pastor has grown from less than 200 weekly churchgoers in 2023 to about 6,000 today.

A Bexar County mother said her family survived a shooting — and one of the suspects was her 16-year-old son.

Celebrities have begun paying tribute to R&B and neo-soul icon D’Angelo.

Palestinians in Gaza have welcomed the news of an agreement on the first phase of a peace plan between Israel and Hamas.

Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Robert Roberson hopes he will again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

Indonesian rescuers have recovered over two dozen bodies over the weekend alone after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed five days ago.

A South African man's prophecy about the Rapture has gone viral.

The mother of James Foley, the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Syria in 2014, has told her story of loss and healing at a Vatican vigil attended by Pope Leo XIV.

Six years after Barbara Boyd’s son was fatally shot outside a San Antonio nightclub, she continues to visit his gravesite several times a week, hoping, praying and waiting for justice.

"Thoughts and prayers."

The pews of a Minneapolis church were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren paired with older ‘buddies’ listening to a prayer on their third day of the new school year.

An Amish woman is accused of killing her 4-year-old son by throwing him into an Ohio lake as a test of her faith.

Atlanta rappers JID and Offset have new albums out this month.

Kalen DeBoer is looking to restore Alabama as one of the nation's top college football teams.

One year after Donald Trump's near-assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man.

The devastation from the Hill County floods has triggered a call to action across our country. One group answering the call is the nonprofit God’s Pit Crew out of Danville, Virginia.

A new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations is about to be written, whether for the better or the even worse.

A pastor says God had a hand in preventing a mass shooting at his suburban Detroit church where more than 100 people had gathered to worship.

Muslims will soon welcome a new lunar year in what's known as the Hijri calendar.

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black members 10 years ago on Tuesday.

More than 1.6 million Muslims are completing a core element of the Hajj, the symbolic stoning of the devil.

San Antonio native Anna Castillo is graduating on Friday from Texas Online Preparatory School and will be gathering with her online peers on the University of Dallas’s campus.

Less spending, higher prices and fewer animal sacrifices subdued the usual festive mood as the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha was celebrated in many parts of the world.

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsburgh.

Louisiana lawmakers have for the third consecutive year rejected a bill that would have added some rape cases to the narrow list of exceptions to the state’s abortion ban.

Large numbers of Muslims converge once a year on Saudi Arabia to unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that is one of the pillars of Islam.

Some people thought the 1925 Scopes monkey trial marked a cultural defeat for biblical fundamentalism.

The 1925 Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism.

In his public appearance as pope, Leo called himself an Augustinian, putting an unusual spotlight on his religious order.

“Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic voting to elect a new pope has been going on for centuries and created a whole genre of historical trivia.

Two general managers and one head coach were surprised Shedeur Sanders wasn’t selected Thursday night because their teams had first-round grades on him, they told The Associated Press.

Zeev Buium was trying to help lead Denver to the NCAA’s Frozen Four championship less than two weeks ago.

Nico Iamaleava says he’s heading to UCLA, a week after Tennessee announced the quarterback who helped the Volunteers reach last season’s College Football Playoff was no longer with the program.

Dustin May allowed just one hit and an unearned run for the Los Angeles Dodgers in his first major league start in nearly two years.

Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d'Haiti, the Catholic church at the heart of the largest Haitian diaspora in the United States.

TCU standout guard Hailey Van Lith says it was difficult, but she's glad to have shared publicly about mental health struggles she says she dealt with early in her basketball career.

Protesters on each side of the abortion debate have packed a hallway of Georgia's Capitol during a hearing on a bill that would ban most abortions.

Texas Rangers left-hander Cody Bradford says he realized early in his development that he probably wouldn’t ever possess the type of fastball that causes scouts to take a second look at their radar guns.

A nonprofit dedicated to serving victims of violence in Medina County has touched hundreds of lives in the city of Devine; however, after being forced to shut their shop’s doors due to financial difficulties, the owner is on the search for a new location.

Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan got sick in the second half of the Heat-Knicks game, interrupting the action at Madison Square Garden.

Former District 10 councilman Clayton Perry is back as one of 27 candidates to replace Ron Nirenberg as mayor of San Antonio in the May 3 election.

A beloved artist known for painting elaborate portraits that honor San Antonio’s culture is being remembered by the community he impacted after he abruptly died in January.

A Florida man has been put to death for the 1997 killings of a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple's toddler.

President Donald Trump says at a private religious group's Washington prayer breakfast he's forming a commission on religious liberty.

Five decades of war among leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, drug lords and the government in Colombia have left 450,000 people killed and more than 124,000 disappeared.

Two friends from California, Learner Tien and Alex Michelsen, have both reached the fourth round at the Australian Open.

Jessica Alba and her husband Cash Warren are separating after 16 years of marriage.

A wrong-way driver crashed head-on into Emmalee “Emma” Bond on Dec. 21, 2024. Moments later, an innocent bystander — Christen Cantu — jumped into action.

The Native American Church is the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America.

This holiday season, some religious congregations across the U.S. are holding events designed to be accommodating to and inclusive of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

About 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, but what, exactly, is an angel.

For Christians around the world, Christmas is the joyful celebration of the birth of Jesus.

Born in Ghana, Sister Seyram Mary Adzokpa had never encountered a nun until adulthood.

Israel Vázquez, the Mexican fighter who won three bantamweight world titles, has died at 46.

Colombia hosts the largest population of migrants and refugees from Venezuela, where more than 7.7 million have left since 2014 for economic, political and safety reasons.

Thousands of people came together for a hot turkey lunch on Thursday.

Whether it be a difference in age, language or even lifestyle, there’s always one thing that we have in common: Music.

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Among the nation’s charismatic Christians, there’s one highly politicized faction in particular that believes the reelection of former President Donald Trump would be a win in a literal spiritual war of angels in demons.

For many Haitian immigrants, Sunday mornings in Springfield, Ohio, are spent joyfully worshipping God as they sing and pray in their native Creole.

Led by co-pastors Joe and Dawn Weaks, Connection Christian Church, a 118-year-old congregation in Odessa, has transformed while keeping true to its legacy of helping the community.

A domestic abuse survivor is dedicating her life to not only helping children understand when and the safest way to get out of harmful relationships, but also highlighting the subtle signs that can happen that lead up to that boiling point.

Robert’s Western World is Nashville’s most iconic honky tonk and practically synonymous with country music.

A San Antonio animal rescue stresses the importance of keeping dogs safe when there is excessive heat in our area.

A Texas church has not one — but two — members aboard the International Space Station.