Under the direction of Portuguese missionaries, large quantities of ivory sourced from their East African colonies came to be used to carve ecclesiastical statuettes by indigenous artisans.
Yet here sits a thriving abbey with its youthful monks, drawing pilgrims while its Benedictines pray the ancient Latin of the ...
Senior U.S. diplomats visit Damascus, as Washington and Brussels weigh lifting sanctions against the country’s transitional ...
Today, more than any other nation, Syrians yearn deeply for their homeland—for the land where they can live in their own ...
When British parliamentarians approved a law to allow physician-assisted suicide on Nov. 29, it followed a year of ...
New research suggests Stonehenge's reconstruction united ancient Britons, with stones transported from distant regions ...
Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. That number has remained steady in the past decade but ...
The Foreign Office has warned Brits heading outside the European Union towards Kuwait for Christmas and New Year over fresh ...
A small silver amulet discovered by archaeologists in Germany could transform our understanding of how Christianity spread ...
Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. That number has remained steady in the past decade but ...
Jürgen Moltmann passes, Russia restricts Ukrainian churches, and church planters strategize about how to start congregations ...
Britain has become the Western capital for sharia courts, with 85 operating throughout the country. The news hardly bodes ...