Religion

A senior Liberty University official says Jerry Falwell Jr. has resigned from his leadership post at the evangelical Virginia college.

Pope Francis is warning against any prospect that rich people would get priority for a coronavirus vaccine.

More than 40 people at an Alabama Baptist church were infected with the virus the congregation held a series of religious services.

Cameras captured hundreds of people attending a worship service Wednesday night, many of them without masks and ignoring social distancing guidelines.

The nuns, ages 69 to 99, included teachers, an author and a secretary in the Vatican Secretariat of State.

A statue of Jesus Christ was decapitated and knocked off a pedestal at a Catholic church in Florida, another in a string of similar incidents nationwide.

The Vatican issued a long-awaited manual for bishops and religious superiors on conducting in-house investigations into allegations of priests who rape and molest minors and vulnerable adults.

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid.

A cat stole the show during an online prayer service after it was caught on camera stealing some milk.

Faith leaders are speaking out after California Gov. Gavin Newsom banned singing and chanting in houses of worship last week due to a surge in coronavirus cases following weeks of protests.

Mississippi has the last state flag that includes the Confederate battle emblem.

The pope noted that most priests were "obedient and creative" during the pandemic, but compared the defiance of some to the behavior of children.

Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed the lawsuit in Arkansas against Bakker and Morningside Church Productions, just three months after the state of Missouri filed a similar lawsuit.

American religious leaders across faiths are grappling with the heavy burden of helping to heal two active traumas: rising civil unrest driven by the police killing of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic.

Reverend Johnnie Clark with Word Assembly Church in East Oakland said it's a matter of life and death.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom prepares to release plans for how religious institutions can reopen in California during the coronavirus pandemic, health officials announced that two church services that were held without authorization have been sources of outbreaks.