Cambodia ’s astonishing jungle relic is another “lost city” that perhaps was never really lost. After all, no matter how dense the treescape, it is hard to lose a place that, sprawling across some 390 ...

The Jubilee of 2025 was officially inaugurated. Over the next year, Catholics around the world are invited to receive a plenary indulgence by crossing the Holy Door of one of Rome’s four major ...

The Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded and confounded visitors since it was unveiled to the wider world more than ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Reports for years have indicated that religious intolerance is on the rise around the globe in the face of increasing authoritarian rule and the continued spread of Islamic extremism ...

One “expert,” Herman Kahn, predicted that Japan would surpass America as the world’s largest economy ...

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I first toyed with the idea of advocating for a world without religions. My reason is simple. Religions have an ambiguous past. Harmonious communities were formed in the spirit of a religion; but the ...

The mysterious disappearance of an elderly woman who vanished without trace after her husband turned his back for a few moments, was solved two years later thanks to Google Maps. Marcel Taret was ...

According to George Ellis, one of the world’s leading cosmologists, the multiverse hypothesis is itself a metaphysical explanation that cannot be tested. As he writes in “Cosmology ...

New York may feel like the center of the universe, but on New Year’s Eve the Big Apple is late to the party, with the US being one of the last countries in the world to see the start of a brand ...

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