RELIGION

The white supremacist accused of gunning down 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand has dismissed his lawyer and opted to represent himself at trial, prompting the prime minister to declare Tuesday that she would do everything in her power to deny him a platform for his racist views.

Christians need to go to church. It’s that simple.

On March 15, New Zealand changed.

She wonders now if that moment was a prophecy, if her brother somehow knew it was the last time they'd see each other.

French cardinal Philippe Barbarin is meeting with the pope after having been convicted by a French court of failing to report a known pedophile priest to police.

The Latest on the mosque shootings in New Zealand (all times local): 2:20 p.m.

Families of the 50 people killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings are enduring an increasingly agonizing wait for the bodies of victims to be released as New Zealand reels from the unprecedented tragedy.

Catholic Church leaders in El Salvador have condemned a proposal being considered by lawmakers that would grant amnesty to those who committed serious crimes during the country's civil conflict in the 1980s and early 1990s.

An Israeli court has set a 60-day deadline for the Jordanian-appointed council that oversees Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem to respond to its closure of a disputed structure at the city's most sensitive scared site.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Dr. Mehnaz Afridi and Pastor Robert Jeffress reflect on what faith communities can do to fight back against bigotry following the New Zealand attack.