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Pope Leo XIV leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in the St. Peter¥s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope meets with Italian secret agents and urges them to be ethical

8:01 AM on Friday, December 12

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of Italy’s intelligence services and warned them not to use confidential information for blackmailing or other nefarious purposes

This combination of six undated photos shows hostages, from top left, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi, from bottom left, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Carmel Gat, who were held hostage by Hamas militants in Gaza. On Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, the Hostages Families Forum announced their deaths while in Hamas captivity. (The Hostages Families Forum via AP)

New footage shows six Israeli hostages celebrating Jewish holiday, months before they were killed

6:34 AM on Friday, December 12

New footage shows six Israeli hostages celebrating Hanukkah while held captive in Gaza months before they were killed

FILE - An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stands in front of a menorah on the third eve of Hanukkah, at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem's old city, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated

5:08 AM on Friday, December 12

Hanukkah is Judaism’s “festival of lights.”

Henry Hamra, a Syrian-American Jew who is one of the founders of a new Jewish heritage initiative, reads the Torah, the Jewish holy book, at al-Firenj Synagogue in the old city of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Syrian-American Jews register first Jewish NGO in Syria to restore heritage

5:07 AM on Friday, December 12

A group of Syrian-American Jews has registered a nongovernmental organization in Syria to restore Jewish heritage

A pilgrim carries an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe past the Popocatepetl in Paso de Cortes on his way to Mexico City, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel)

Mexican devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe blends into national identity

11:05 PM on Thursday, December 11

Mexicans' devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe — an apparition of the Virgin Mary — extends beyond religion

FILE - Students in graduation garb walk by a pro-Palestinian tent encampment on the steps of Sproul Hall at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on May 2, 2024. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

California colleges settle antisemitism complaints with Jewish groups and individuals

12:10 PM on Thursday, December 11

Two California colleges have settled complaints alleging antisemitism arising from pro-Palestinian campus protests

Onyeka Chieme, a student of St. Mary's Catholic School, abducted by gunmen and later released, poses for a photograph at his house in Papiri, Nigeria, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Afolabi Sotunde)

'They said they'd shoot us': Nigerian child recalls how he was taken in mass school abduction

7:45 AM on Thursday, December 11

When gunmen stormed St. Mary Catholic School in Nigeria's Papiri community, the children tried to escape but were told they would be shot if they ran away

Palestinians cross a flooded street following heavy rain in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A winter storm chills Gaza and floods tent camps, exposing aid failures

5:42 AM on Thursday, December 11

Storm Byron has hit Gaza and worsened the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory

Former official at Georgia Baptist university indicted on charges of lying about sexual assault

12:48 PM on Wednesday, December 10

A former vice president at a Baptist university in Georgia has been indicted for allegedly lying about sexually assaulting a woman

Palestinians ride in a cart pulled by a vehicle through a flooded street after stormy weather in Gaza City Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Aid flow into Gaza falls short of the ceasefire terms, Israeli figures show

6:20 AM on Wednesday, December 10

Aid deliveries into Gaza are falling short of the amount agreed upon in the U.S.-brokered ceasefire

Rabbi Jonathan Aaron plays guitar while Cantor Lizzie Weiss helps during the Havdalah candle ceremony at the conclusion of a sound bath at Temple Emanuel, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner)

Faith leaders embrace sound baths to connect with spiritual seekers

5:01 AM on Wednesday, December 10

Sound baths are meditative experiences where participants lie down and are immersed in sound waves from instruments like gongs, singing bowls and chimes

FILE - Members of the Alawite minority gather outside the Russian air base in Hmeimim, near Latakia in Syria's coastal region, March 11, 2025, as they seek refuge there after recent violence and retaliatory killings in the area. (AP Photo/Omar Albam, File)

In post-Assad Syria's chaos, Alawite women face sexual violence

10:15 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A woman from Syria's Alawite minority has spoken about her harrowing experience of being kidnapped and raped by gunmen

Paul Irngaut, Acting President of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., left to right, Duane Smith, Chair and CEO of the Inuvialuit Regional Corp., Darrel Nasogaluak, Elder and Chair of Tuktoyaktuk Community Corp., and Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami answer questions after the unveiling of a traditionally built Inuvialuit kayak and a selection of Inuit items at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick /The Canadian Press via AP)

Indigenous artifacts returned by the Vatican are now at a Canadian museum

7:41 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A selection of items returned by the Vatican is now at the Canadian Museum of History after First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders for years called for the repatriation of Indigenous artifacts

The Jerusalem Regional Archaeologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority, Dr. Amit Re'im, walks in a section of an excavation site where, according to the institution, a city wall from the Hasmonean period, dating to the late 2nd century BCE, was uncovered under the Tower of David Citadel Museum, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Archaeologists uncover intact section of ancient Jerusalem wall from Hanukkah era

7:06 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Archaeologists have uncovered the longest remains of an ancient wall that once encircled Jerusalem during the time of Hanukkah

Rian Johnson, left, and Daniel Craig pose for a portrait in New York on on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)

The greatest mystery of Rian Johnson's 'Knives Out' movies? Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc

11:55 AM on Monday, November 24

The greatest mystery in Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” movies might be Benoit Blanc

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