Religion and Faith

Survivors and relatives attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Survivors and relatives attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Religion and Faith

At Auschwitz memorial, survivors see echoes of the past in rising antisemitism

JAN. 27, 2025

FILE - Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio giving a mass outside the San Cayetano church in Buenos Aires, Aug. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
FILE - Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio giving a mass outside the San Cayetano church in Buenos Aires, Aug. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Religion and Faith

Pope Francis is introspective and self-critical in his autobiography, at least about his youth

JAN. 14, 2025

Nawal Hirsi, right, goes snow tubing with her family as part of a group promoting outdoors activities by Muslim women, at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove, Minn., on Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Nawal Hirsi, right, goes snow tubing with her family as part of a group promoting outdoors activities by Muslim women, at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove, Minn., on Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

Religion and Faith

Scarves over headscarves, Muslim women’s outdoors group tackles snow tubing in Minnesota

JAN. 8, 2025

FILE - A statue of former German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (made by Fritz Fleer) stands outside St. Petri church in downtown Hamburg, northern Germany, Feb. 3, 2006. Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis in the concentration camp Flossenbuerg on April 9, 1944. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer, File)
FILE - A statue of former German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (made by Fritz Fleer) stands outside St. Petri church in downtown Hamburg, northern Germany, Feb. 3, 2006. Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis in the concentration camp Flossenbuerg on April 9, 1944. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer, File)

Religion and Faith

What would Bonhoeffer do? Anti-Nazi pastor’s legacy claimed, debated across political spectrum

JAN. 7, 2025

Kathleen Krueger and her daughter, Megan, 28, sit together at their home in Racine, Wis., Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)
Kathleen Krueger and her daughter, Megan, 28, sit together at their home in Racine, Wis., Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

Religion and Faith

How faith communities can be welcoming of believers with disabilities this holiday season and beyond

DEC. 23, 2024

An Armenian Christian priest walks along an alley near to St. James Cathedral at the Armenian quarter in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
An Armenian Christian priest walks along an alley near to St. James Cathedral at the Armenian quarter in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Religion and Faith

As wars rage around them, Armenian Christians in Jerusalem’s Old City feel the walls closing in

DEC. 18, 2024

This combination of 2024 photos shows, from left, Sheri Autrey, Pam Walton and Lisa Webb, former members of the Christian sect “Two by Twos.” (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, Mengshin Lin, Mike Stewart)
This combination of 2024 photos shows, from left, Sheri Autrey, Pam Walton and Lisa Webb, former members of the Christian sect “Two by Twos.” (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, Mengshin Lin, Mike Stewart)

Religion and Faith

Survivors seek a reckoning as FBI investigates child sex abuse in little-known Christian sect

DEC. 16, 2024

A man looks down from a bridge into the Santa Cruz cenote in Homun, Mexico, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man looks down from a bridge into the Santa Cruz cenote in Homun, Mexico, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Religion and Faith

Indigenous Mayans want their sacred cenotes to have personhood status

DEC. 9, 2024

Election 2024 Abortion Family Photo Gallery
The Young children from left, Gianna, Isaac, and Lucas, attend the Ohio March for Life, with their mom Erin Young, right, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. All three children are adopted. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Religion and Faith

Photo essay from rural Ohio captures anti-abortion family’s life, activism and crucial slice of American electorate

DEC. 6, 2024

Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral chief architect Philippe Villeneuve smokes a cigarette by the cathedral during an interview with Associated Press, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral chief architect Philippe Villeneuve smokes a cigarette by the cathedral during an interview with Associated Press, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Religion and Faith

Notre Dame’s resurrection: Its chief architect on rebuilding France’s ‘heart’ in 5 years

DEC. 5, 2024

Border Patrol specialist Mitchell Holmes, right, and Fish and Wildlife Regional Law Enforcement agent Kevin Shinn, use skills they learned in the Border Patrol Chaplaincy academy during a training session, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in Dania Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Border Patrol specialist Mitchell Holmes, right, and Fish and Wildlife Regional Law Enforcement agent Kevin Shinn, use skills they learned in the Border Patrol Chaplaincy academy during a training session, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in Dania Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Religion and Faith

Border Patrol trains more chaplains as the job and polarizing immigration debate rattle agents

NOV. 27, 2024

APTOPIX Teenage Buddhist Lama-Birthday
U.S.-born Buddhist lama, Jalue Dorje, right, and a member of the Minnesota Tibetan community bow and touch foreheads in a traditional Tibetan greeting at his 18th birthday and enthronement ceremony in Isanti, Minn., on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

General

Only-on-AP multimedia package documents last big party for 18-year-old before he joins a Himalayan monastery

NOV. 22, 2024

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