Charlie Hebdo marks 10 years after terror attack with special issue
Gunmen stormed satirical paper’s Paris offices, killing 11 people, over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad Ten years on from the Islamist terrorist attack on the...
Category : Religion
Magdeburg mourns Christmas market dead
Saudi national, alleged to have killed five and injured more than 200, had issued a warning on social media A Saudi national alleged to have...
Paris Olympics organisers apologise to Christians for Last Supper parody
Apology follows anger among Catholics and other groups at opening ceremony segment that resembled biblical scene The organising committee of Paris 2024 has apologised to...
French athlete may swap hijab for a cap to avoid Olympic opening ceremony ban
Sounkamba Sylla reportedly reaches compromise after France’s strict laws on secularism threatened to bar her A French sprinter is expected to swap her headscarf for...
Blessed are the leaks: Italian home plays host to another ‘weeping’ statue
Figurine sits in front garden of family that previously claimed to have seen tears of blood from another statue In the front garden of the...
London-born boy who died aged 15 to become first millennial saint
Second posthumous miracle attributed to leukaemia victim Carlo Acutis, qualifying him for canonisation A London-born teenager who died of leukaemia aged 15 is to become...
Vatican tightens rules on supernatural phenomena in crackdown on hoaxes
Updated guidelines strip bishops of power to recognise ‘supernatural’ nature of purportedly divine events Apparitions of the Virgin Mary and weeping statues have been part...
Shadow of war hangs over Orthodox Easter as Zelenskiy and Putin mark holiday
Russian president attends service led by one of his staunchest backers while Zelenskiy asserts God is on Kyiv’s side Orthodox Easter services in Ukraine and...
Insider art: Vatican sets up Biennale pavilion at Venice women’s jail
Pope Francis to attend installation that includes short film featuring Zoë Saldaña and Giudecca inmates Originally a convent dating to the 13th century, and once...
The Guardian view on pilgrimage: a 21st-century spiritual exercise | Editorial
As a recent BBC series confirms, the idea of a spiritual journey has survived the decline of organised religion In Geoffrey Chaucer’s England, the arrival...
