President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission is preparing to make recommendations after more than a year of hearings.

Israeli police have arrested a 36-year-old man caught on video attacking a nun near Jerusalem's Old City.

The Varsity 4 News4JAX softball Super 6 rankings will be published Thursday through the end of the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through April 22.

President Donald Trump has read a notable Bible passage in a livestreamed marathon.

The Varsity 4 News4JAX softball Super 6 rankings will be published Thursday through the end of the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through April 8.

The Varsity 4 News4JAX softball Super 6 rankings will be published Thursday through the end of the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through April 1.

Pope Leo XIV says no one can use God to justify war and he's praying especially for Christians in the Middle East.

The Varsity 4 News4JAX softball Super 6 rankings will be published Thursday through the end of the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through March 25.

Crowds of Syrians have rallied to protest authorities’ efforts to limit the sale and consumption of alcohol in Damascus.

Pope Leo XIV has urged a ceasefire in the Middle East and called on leaders in the Iran war to reopen talks.

The Varsity 4 News4JAX flag football Super 6 rankings will be published Wednesday through the end of the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through Feb. 24.

The Nigerian government has launched a military operation against Islamic militants after more than 160 people were killed in Muslim-majority villages.

The United States airstrikes targeting militants affiliated with the Islamic State group in northwestern Nigeria are a major escalation of an offensive that Nigeria’s overstretched military has struggled with for years.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. launched a deadly strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country's government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.

On Christmas Eve, thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square and other Holy Land sites, after two years of subdued Christmas celebrations because of the war in Gaza.

Pope Leo XIV's visit to Lebanon highlights the country's religious pluralism and sends a message to Christians not to abandon the region.

The Conquerors spotted the host Christians a 12-point lead and fired back. Temp cornerback Terrell Pinkney picked off two passes in the fourth quarter, one in the end zone to halt a drive and another one run back for a region championship-icing touchdown on the way to a 27-12 victory over its crosstown private-school rival in the Varsity 4 Game of the Week.

President Donald Trump’s administration is promoting efforts to work with Nigeria’s government to counter violence against Christians.

News4JAX had photographer Jacob Simons capture the Bishop Kenny-University Christian game in this photo gallery. Click through the images to check out the action from the game.

James Dobson, a child psychologist who founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, has died at age 89.

Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice.

The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote and should “submit” to their husbands.

Pope Francis visited a record 10 African countries throughout his pontificate, often venturing to areas ravaged by war, poverty or natural disaster.

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace faced criticism over legal wrangling concerning universities and allegations of antisemitism during a town hall at a gated island community in her South Carolina district.

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war.

President Donald Trump is set to host an Easter prayer service and dinner at the White House Wednesday evening.

As many as four in five immigrants at risk of deportation from the United States are Christian, according to a new report that calls on their fellow believers to consider the impact of aggressive deportation policies pursued under the Trump administration.

University Christian’s quest for a spot in the boys basketball state championship game ran into problems in the second half.

The boys basketball state semifinals begin this week in Lakeland. Here’s a look at the University Christian and Santa Fe Catholic Class 2A final four game.

President Donald Trump says at a private religious group's Washington prayer breakfast he's forming a commission on religious liberty.

The News4JAX Varsity 4 Super 6 boys high school basketball rankings will be published each Wednesday — except during the weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas — through the regular season. Records are through Jan. 14.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is heading to Syria to encourage the transition in the country following the ouster of President Bashar Assad by Islamist insurgents.

United Methodist News Service reports that a religious schism has turned deadly in Nigeria, with a church member fatally shot and two young children killed as homes were set ablaze.

In churches across long-stifled Syria, Christians have marked the first Sunday services since Bashar Assad’s ouster in an air of transformation.

The opening round of the high school football playoffs is in the books, with some history-making wins and some agonizing losses for area programs. Moving on to the second round were 15 teams from the News4JAX Florida coverage area and three from south Georgia.

At noon on Sundays in Worthington, Minnesota, an overflow crowd is still swaying to the Guatemalan band at Spanish-language Catholic Mass, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians are wrapping up their six-hour-long service, and at town’s edge among the cornfields, refugees from Southeast Asia gather to pray and sing in Karen at the Baptist church founded by Swedish farmers.

Donald Trump has received strong support from white evangelical Protestants in his presidential bids.

Dozens of members from Pakistan’s civil society have rallied in the southern port city of Karachi against the death sentence handed down to a Christian man on blasphemy charges, nearly a year after one of the worst mob attacks in the country on Christians.

The heads of major Christian denominations in Israel say that local governments across the country are demanding they pay property tax, violating a longstanding arrangement in a manner they say reflects growing intolerance for Christians in the Holy Land.

An evangelical seminary in Pasadena, California, is considering revisions to its sexual standards.

University Christian’s quest for a softball repeat state championship ran into an unhittable pitcher.

Dozens of people gathered at the St. John’s Cathedral in downtown Jacksonville to take part in a procession commemorating Palm Sunday.

Christian voters and faith leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants.

The Cove is a pop-up, 18-and-up Christian nightclub in Nashville, Tennessee.

The girs high school basketball state tournament begins this week at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland. Here’s a glance at the Class 2A state semifinal.

Former President Donald Trump is promising to use a second term in the White House to defend Christian values and is suggesting he’ll protect the faith's central icon, warning a convention of religious broadcasters that the left wants “to tear down crosses.”.

Christians around the world are striving on Christmas Eve to put aside worries and fears of an unsettled, war-torn world.

Supporters of Israel have rallied by the tens of thousands on Washington's National Mall, voicing solidarity in the fight against Hamas and crying “never again.”.

After Trinity Christian’s defense stifled University Christian for a 14-0 victory in District 1M action, it was a most un-Christian-like handshake line. A scuffle broke out between both sides, with some players pushing and shoving at a minimum and staff from both sides mixed up the middle.

The public health department in Ottawa County in Michigan is facing deep cuts to its funding.

Police in eastern Pakistan have arrested 129 Muslims after a mob angered over an alleged desecration of a Quran by two men attacked more than a dozen churches and homes of minority Christians.

Police say a Muslim mob has attacked a Christian area in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, burning a church, damaging four others and demolishing a man's house after accusing him of desecrating Islam’s holy book.

For eight years, Donald Trump has managed to secure the support of many evangelical and conservative Christians despite behavior that has often seemed at odds with teachings espoused by Christ in the Gospels.

University Christian waited a long time for a moment like Wednesday. State champs. Finally.

Pope Francis’ peace envoy for Ukraine has blasted war as a “pandemic” and said all Christians are called to be peacemakers.

Fifteen batters up. Fifteen batters down. University Christian junior Sophia Kardatzke dominated Foundation Academy in the Class 2A softball state semifinals, firing a perfect game to lead an 11-0 romp at Legends Way Ballfield in Clermont.

The LA Dodgers have uninvited an LGBTQ Charity due to a protest from Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 26 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 19 games.

From dressing as Roman soldiers in Antigua, Guatemala, to carrying palm fronds on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, Christians around the world are celebrating Holy Week.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 5 games.

Many Christians around the world flock to Jerusalem each Easter to try and relive firsthand the events written about in the Bible on what is the most important week and day on the Christian calendar.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through March 22 games.

Leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church have agreed to resolve their differences peacefully after weeks of deadly confrontations between rival followers of the synod and security forces that have left at least 10 people dead.

The religious makeup of the incoming 118th Congress looks more like what America used to be than what it is today.

The Christians faced off with Clearwater Central Catholic in the Class 1M state semifinals and treated fans to a classic in a 34-29 loss. Photographer Kevin Nguyen captured the game in photos. Click through the gallery above to check out those pictures.

A UC desperation pass was picked off at the goal line with no time left, sending the Marauders (12-1) into the state championship game with a 34-29 victory over the Christians (11-2). So, Central Catholic will meet Chaminade-Madonna for the title, while UC’s season is finished.

The final four of the high school football playoffs are here. Six area teams — five from Florida, one from Georgia — will play in the state semifinals on Friday night. Here’s a breakdown of those games.

The latest U.K. census has found that less than half of people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.

The night started with a dozen area teams in the state playoffs and only six of those remain.

A dozen teams are still standing in the high school football state playoffs with some major all-local showdowns heading our way.

Evangelical Christians across the U.S. reconfirmed their allegiance to conservative candidates and causes in the midterm elections.

This is the News4JAX Super 10 rankings of the season. It is being published a day earlier this week due to the election on Tuesday.

It’s the final week of the high school football regular season in both Florida and Georgia. We take a look at the top four games of the week, followed by the next four and then the full schedule. All games are Friday night at 7 p.m. unless indicated.

An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the years before Islam spread across the Arabian Peninsula has been discovered on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.

The News4JAX high school football Super 10 will be published on Tuesdays throughout the high school football regular season.

The News4JAX high school football Super 10 will be published on Tuesdays throughout the high school football regular season.

The News4JAX high school football Super 10 will be published on Tuesdays throughout the high school football regular season. It was published a day later this week due to Hurricane Ian and makeup games on Monday and Tuesday.

The News4JAX high school football Super 10 will be published on Tuesdays throughout the high school football regular season.

University Christian buried an 0-for-forever streak against its old rival from the Peach State.

The Border Classic presented by Baker’s Sports puts high school football in the spotlight this week, with seven games over three days.

As Donald Trump considers another White House run, polls show he's the most popular figure in the Republican Party.

It was a very good afternoon in Clermont for the Fort White and University Christian softball teams.

Pope Francis has expressed his spiritual closeness to Catholics in China and voiced hope that the church there operates in “freedom and tranquility.

Christian worshipers gathered in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Seplucher, the traditional site of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection, to observe the Easter holiday.

Pope Francis invoked “gestures of peace in these days marked by the horror of war” in an Easter vigil homily in St. Peter’s Basilica attended by the mayor of the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol and three Ukrainian lawmakers.

A tough third quarter was too much for the University Christian girls basketball team to overcome in Wednesday morning’s Class 2A state semifinal.

The University Christian girls basketball team is one of the final four teams left standing in the Class 2A state playoffs. The Christians face Faith Christian on Wednesday morning in Lakeland. A glance at the matchup.

Bishop Kenny, Nease and University Christian are the three girls basketball teams left standing in the state playoffs.

Pakistani police have widened their manhunt for two unidentified assailants who shot and killed a Christian priest and wounded another the previous day in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

High school football is now in the state playoffs and our weekly predictions will cover each of those. News4Jax sports editor Justin Barney reveals his weekly high school football picks every week. All games at 7:30 p.m. unless indicated.

The high school football playoffs begin this week. News4Jax takes a look at the games in Class 1A-4A.

High school football season is back, and with it, our weekly predictions on games in the area. News4Jax sports editor Justin Barney reveals his weekly high school football picks every week. Teams play on Thursday and Friday night this week so the predictions are published a day earlier than usual.

The high school football season is in full swing and News4Jax has you covered. The Super 10 rankings will be a fixture on Tuesday’s during the regular season. All games are Friday at 7 p.m. unless indicated. District games indicated by an *.

High school football season is back, and with it, our weekly predictions on games in the area. News4Jax sports editor Justin Barney reveals his weekly high school football picks every Thursday.

It’s Week 3 of the high school football season and quite a few teams look to stay unbeaten. Here’s a glance at our top four games of the week and the next four.

Authorities say a Nigerian leading the movement for the secession of southeast Nigeria from the rest of the country has been arrested.

University Christian’s dream softball season ended one win short of a state championship.

University Christian marched into the Class 2A softball state championship game, routing Mount Dora Christian 8-3 on Tuesday afternoon in Clermont.

At 17-2 and riding a nine-game winning streak, University Christian is headed for the Class 2A state softball semifinals on Tuesday in Clermont with a championship on its minds.