The Vatican notoriously does not like to make decisions down the barrel of a gun, and with good reason – moments of crisis driven by outside pressure rarely make for careful policy. Yet there’s an ...

Italian Jewish leaders expressed relief on Thursday after the Vatican Secretary of State said the prayer for the conversion of Jews could be eliminated from the recently re-introduced Latin Mass.

International Jewish bodies have called upon the Vatican to "clarify" a new Papal edict expanding use of an old prayer that asks Divine help for Jews to overcome their blindness. Pope Benedict XVI ...

One of the religious liberty cases the Supreme Court Justices won't be hearing this term is the issue of Maryland High School student Caleigh Wood, who refused to take part in a school assignment to ...

When news broke last year that Pope Benedict XVI was reviving an ancient prayer for the conversion of the Jews, the reaction in Jewish circles was outrage tempered by confusion. Communal leaders ...

The former chief rabbi of Ireland David Rosen has expressed "deep regret and disappointment" at a Vatican decision to retain a prayer for the conversion of Jews in its revised version of the Good ...

Francis says this Lent love means “caring for those who suffer or feel abandoned and fearful because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In these days of deep uncertainty about the future, let us keep in mind ...

Of the things Marilyn Monroe is best known for, being Jewish is not on the list. But the impending sale of Monroe’s personal prayer book — or siddur, as it is called in Hebrew — has piqued interest in ...

“Obtain for us, and for England thy Dowry, every grace and blessing, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!” The statue of Our Lady of Walsingham in the Slipper Chapel, Walsingham, Norfolk, England ...

A group allegedly belonging to the Hindu Jagarana Vedike barged into a prayer meeting hall at Kukkundoor in Karkala on Friday and alleged that the organisers were engaged in religious conversion. The ...