New Religious Leadership

The article reports on multiple developments in the widening U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. A U.S. KC-135 tanker involved in operations over western Iraq crashed; recov...

On Day 10 of the regional war, Iran announced that Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been chosen by the Assembly of Exper...

This Up First newsletter covers several news items. Iran has named 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader after the reported death of Ayatollah Ali K...

On March 25, 2026, Sarah Mullally was installed as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury at Canterbury Cathedral. She is the first woman to hold that office in the Chur...

U.S. intelligence briefed President Trump and close advisers that Iran’s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had reservations about his son, Ayatollah Mojta...

Iran's Assembly of Experts has named Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old second son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country's new supreme leader following t...

The article reports that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been chosen as Iran’s new supreme leader by the country’s Assem...

President Trump has publicly expressed his willingness to engage in talks with Iran's new leadership after the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who wa...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, after 17 years of service as the Archbishop of New York, reflects on his tenure with feelings of gratitude, joy, and some sadness as he trans...

Ten months after his election on May 8, 2025, Pope Leo XIV — the first U.S. pope — moved into the papal apartments in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace. The apartments ...

President Trump told Fox News he is "not happy" that Mojtaba Khamenei was named Iran's new supreme leader after the death of his father, Ali Khamenei, reportedly on ...