Skip to content

Religion News

How Silicon Valley is using religious language to talk about AI

How Silicon Valley is using religious language to talk about AI

TORONTO (AP) — As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious.
Read more >
AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious

AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious

TORONTO (AP) — At 77 years old, Geoffrey Hinton has a new calling in life. Like a modern-day prophet, the Nobel Prize winner is raising alarms about the dangers of uncontrolled and unregulated artificial intelligence.
Read more >
Police say Minneapolis church shooter was filled with hatred and admired mass killers

Police say Minneapolis church shooter was filled with hatred and admired mass killers

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen youngsters sitting in the pews of a Minneapolis church once attended the same school and was “obsessed” with the idea of killing children, authoritie
Read more >
What to know about the shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school

What to know about the shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school

A shooter opened fire Wednesday morning during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school , killing two children and injuring 18 other people before dying by suicide, officials said.
Read more >
Pope highlights virtue of listening while accepting award from US Augustinians

Pope highlights virtue of listening while accepting award from US Augustinians

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV praised the virtue of listening before speaking as he received an award Thursday from his Augustinian religious order in the United States on the feast day of St. Augustine. Leo reflected on peace , service and St.
Read more >
What we know about the shooter who killed 2 and wounded 18 in Minneapolis

What we know about the shooter who killed 2 and wounded 18 in Minneapolis

The shooter who killed two children and injured 18 worshippers attending Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school was quiet and seemed to resent school as an eighth grader there seven years ago, a former classmate said.
Read more >
Quebec government to table legislation to ban prayer in public places

Quebec government to table legislation to ban prayer in public places

MONTREAL — The Quebec government says it is planning to ban prayer in public places as part of a move to strengthen secularism in the province.
Read more >
Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfire

Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfire

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In the vaulted church of a Catholic school in Minneapolis , the pews were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren listening to a psalm on the third day of the new school year.
Read more >
Israeli airstrikes hit Yemeni capital, but no casualties reported

Israeli airstrikes hit Yemeni capital, but no casualties reported

CAIRO (AP) — Israeli airstrikes on Thursday rocked the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, which is under the control of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, the Houthis and the Israeli military said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Read more >
Pope demands end to 'collective punishment' and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza

Pope demands end to 'collective punishment' and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV demanded Wednesday that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza as he pleaded for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the besieged territory amid preparations by Israel for
Read more >