Laurie Goodstein

The attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh is part of a wave of anti-Semitic attacks across the country and around the world.

As many conservatives support the former Vatican diplomat making explosive allegations against the pope, his U.S. allies have rushed to defend him.

The grand jury report is the government’s broadest look yet in the United States at child sexual abuse in the church.

Bill Hybels built an iconic evangelical church outside Chicago. A former assistant says that in the 1980s, he sexually harassed her.

The change in church teaching is likely to challenge Roman Catholic politicians, judges and officials who have argued that their church was not entirely opposed to capital punishment.

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick was removed from ministry last month for sexually abusing an altar boy. But for decades, the church overlooked his harassment of adult seminarians.

Concerned evangelicals staged a revival in Liberty University’s backyard to challenge Jerry Falwell Jr. and his alliance with President Trump.

Juan Carlos Cruz was sexually abused by one of Chile’s most prominent priests. This week he is staying at the Vatican in an extended visit with Pope Francis.

Mike Pompeo is President Trump’s pick to be the next secretary of state, and John R. Bolton is the choice for national security adviser. Civil rights groups are concerned.

Evangelicals like Franklin Graham are locked in a tight embrace with the president and the Republican Party. Some are now asking if the movement has gone astray.

Mr. Graham spread the Gospel around the world through a combination of religious conviction, commanding stage presence and shrewd use of advanced communication technologies.

Reflexive backing of divisive, scandal-plagued figures like Roy S. Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate, is hurting their movement’s image, some evangelical Christians say.

While some Jewish leaders welcomed recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, many worried that the step would inflame tensions and make peace in the Middle East even harder to achieve.

Appalled by the allegations against the Senate candidate, but hesitant to alienate churchgoers who support him, many ministers steered clear of the race in Sunday sermons.

When Jeff Flake railed on the Senate floor against the conduct of his president and his party, much of what he said had roots in his religious upbringing.

Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s choice for an appeals-court seat, belongs to People of Praise, a tight-knit, oath-bound group with considerable sway over its members.

Ms. Blaine, who had been molested by a priest as a teenager, founded a national network of abuse survivors and became a voice for them.

The Rev. Jennifer Butler, chief executive of Faith in Public Life, which organizes leaders of many faiths to work together on liberal causes, talked with us live on Facebook on Monday.

Faith leaders whose politics fall to the left of center are getting more involved in politics to fight against President Trump’s policies.

Religious leaders suggested that the president’s action promised freedoms many did not want while failing to offer legal protections they had been led to expect.