The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

Rome has been all gussied up for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year. An extra 10 million pilgrims are forecast, adding to last year's record of 22 million. More than $8 billion has been spent to ...

In the Latin Church, believers determine how they will observe Lent (fasting is prescribed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday). In contrast, the dietary observances of Orthodox Great Lent ...

RUSSIA is using abducted and brainwashed children as “weapons”, one of Zelensky’s staff battling to rescue Ukraine’s kidnapped kids has warned. Daria Zarivna, 35, told The ...

A look at ‘Rabbiman Adventures,’ Teamtiferet and Israchem's new video game capturing themes of Judaism and Jewish identity.

Before his 2023 death in a suspicious plane crash, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin had built a sprawling, ...

U.S. negotiators worked on a proposed partial ceasefire in Ukraine on Monday, meeting with representatives from Russia a day ...

Russian missile hits hospital while US pushes for Black Sea ceasefire in Saudi talks - Russian negotiator Grigory Karasin ...

During reconstruction work of the burned Ost-West-Friedenskirche in Munich's Olympic Park, a treasure of old Deutsche Mark ...