For nearly 40 years, daring smugglers transported nearly 40,000 Lithuanian-language books into the nation each year when it ...

Revivals of a Michael John LaChiusa musical and an early work by the “Past Lives” filmmaker toy with and challenge audience ...

When it comes to mental illness, we’ve come a long way since the days of superstition and sorcery. But we still have work to ...

Any night now, the astrophysicists tell us, a new star will appear in the night sky—about as bright as the North Star—the ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

The temple, which measures around 450 feet in length and roughly 250 feet wide is perhaps the best-preserved in Egypt.

In a grand display of faith and tradition, over a million devotees from across the country gathered to celebrate the 100th ...

Archaeologists excavating near the site of a now-vanished church, dating back to the 11th or 12th century, have uncovered remarkable evidence of a once-thriving mediaeval settlement. Their research ...

Throughout 2024, Franciscans around the world commemorate the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi receiving the ...

Orthodoxy in Russia is increasingly characterised as a separate religion, which retains the formal aspect of Slavic-Eastern ...

In the cozy medieval village nestled in the Tifatini mountains, the annual rendezvous with one of the longest-running ...