Religion

This weekend, when I learned that someone had walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people, I thought of my Jewish friend, Susan Jacobs.

As Barry Werber walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue, he passed a cart carrying glassware and whiskey meant for the baby-naming ceremony scheduled at Dor Hadash

The shooting comes amid a rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S.

They were professors and accountants, dentists and beloved doctors serving their local community.

A few hundred people held a candlelight vigil in Rittenhouse Square to mourn those killed in Pittsburgh Saturday.

The museum will replace the five fragments in the display with three other fragments that will receive further study.

A new plaza was constructed to provide a better backdrop for the memorial and more information about Nazi Germany's atrocities.

A humanitarian activist, under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, is saying that his faith compels him to offer assistance to people in dire need, including immigrants.

The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of child sexual abuse inside the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania.

The House and Senate have no more scheduled session days before the election.

At issue is a provision that would give now-adult victims of child sexual abuse a two-year reprieve from time limits in state law that otherwise bar them from suing.

Pa.'s Senate has started its last scheduled session week for the year — and all eyes are on a measure that aims to make it easier for victims of child sexual abuse to sue

The list documents cases dating back as far '48 and as recently as '96. 18 priests were arrested and 17 of them are now dead. None of those still living are currently active.

A wide-ranging sexual abuse scandal has roiled Chile in recent months.

A split over whether to allow retroactive lawsuits may doom the entire bill.