BALTIMORE — Several survivors of sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore and their advocates expressed dismay Monday that the church’s proposed bankruptcy plan doesn’t do enough to compensate for decades of emotional damage.

“I think they have a long way to go yet,” said survivor and attorney Teresa Lancaster. Although she ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Three people were fatally shot at an Islamic center in the Clairemont neighborhood on Monday morning, and two teenage suspects were found dead of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds in a vehicle nearby, San Diego police said.

The report of an active shooter at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Eckstrom Avenue came in around 11...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Five people were killed when two teenage gunmen opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday morning in an attackthat sparked widespread shock and condemnation.

Police swarmed the center after receiving calls of an active shooter and found a crime scene that expanded across several blocks in the area.

According to ...Read more

Five people are dead, including the suspected gunmen, after two active shooters entered the Islamic Center in San Diego on Monday morning and opened fire, police said.

Police swarmed the Islamic Center in San Diego on Monday morning after receiving reports of an active shooter and significant injuries. By 1 p.m. police said in a social media ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Three people were fatally shot at an Islamic center in the Clairemont neighborhood Monday morning, and two suspected shooters were found dead in a vehicle nearby, San Diego police said.

Police said they got a report of an active shooter at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Eckstrom Avenue around 11:40 a.m. Officers found three ...Read more

The threat at an Islamic Center in San Diego has been “neutralized” after officers swarmed the mosque amid reports of an active shooter, authorities said.

It was unclear how many people were injured and to what extent, but police urged people to avoid the area near a mosque in the Clairemont district. Scores of officers were on the scene, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego police said they have neutralized a reported shooting at an Islamic center in the Clairemont neighborhood on Monday morning, officials said.

Police said they got a report of an active shooter at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Eckstrom Avenue around 11:40 a.m. About an hour later, San Diego police posted an update on ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego police were investigating a report of a shooting at an Islamic center in Clairemont on Monday morning, officials said.

Police said they got a report of an active shooter at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Eckstrom Avenue around 11:40 a.m. About an hour later, San Diego police posted an update, saying the scene at the ...Read more

Two San Francisco Bay Area USDA employees are among a group of federal workers suing Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, alleging she violated the First Amendment by sending agencywide messages that promoted Christianity to thousands of employees.

In an Easter email to Bay Area federal government employees Thomas MaGee, Anne Poopatanapong and...Read more

Following the Florida education commissioner’s March memorandum to protect religious rights in public schools, the state board of education tweaked its policy to clarify its stances on excused absences for religious instruction or religious holidays.

The new rule clarifies that each school district must adopt a policy to allow “release time...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Just east of the front doors of St. Cecilia’s Church in the Fox Chase neighborhood, there sits a memorial to victims of sexual abuse — a rare sight not only in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, but at churches nationwide.

Consisting of a stone pillar embellished with a light and a blue wreath, in a parish that has reckoned ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — For the past several weeks, young people have been running through Church of Scientology buildings. They’re often clad in masks and costumes and film themselves trying to get as far into the building as possible — all to the chagrin of bewildered church staff.

The trend gained popularity after a teenager, who uses the social...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will meet Pope Leo XIV during a visit to the Vatican at the end of this month, his office announced Wednesday.

The trip will take place from May 26 to 30 and include stops in Rome and Vatican City, according to a statement from the mayor’s press office that highlighted Johnson and Leo’s shared ties ...Read more

MIAMI — After an Evangelical pastor presided over the unveiling of a golden statue of President Donald Trump at his Doral golf course last week, several Florida religious leaders are likening the homage to idolatry and a violation of the biblical prohibition against worshiping false idols.

At a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Wednesday at Trump ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Archdiocese of Chicago removed a Little Italy priest accused of “improper and inappropriate conversations and communications” with children and adult women, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, wrote in a Saturday letter.

The Rev. Jose Molina had been serving as the temporary minister at St. Francis of Assisi...Read more

Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé discussed his country’s ongoing security and sociopolitical crisis, as well as humanitarian and migration challenges, during an audience with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Saturday.

The visit came a day after the first American pontiff marked the first anniversary of his election as head of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Scientology “speed running” trend isn’t slowing down.

Since the first incidents in Los Angeles in late March, large groups of people — some in costumes — have tried to race through buildings belonging to the church in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and countries outside the U.S., even as Scientology’s lawyers...Read more

Shortly after white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney, the May 8 announcement from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican rocked the world: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost — born in Chicago and raised in south suburban Dolton — became the first American pope in the church’s 2,000-year history.

The ...Read more