1515: Francis I succeeds Louis XII as king of France. 1660: The first entry in Samuel Pepys’ diary. On the same day, Thomas ...

"The leader of the new Syrian administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, meets a delegation from the Christian community in Damascus," ...

Christians in Maaloula in western Syria have been living with an intensifying fear for their safety, exacerbated by a recent incident.

From a Mediterranean shipwreck to a mosaic on display in Washington DC, these are the discoveries that made scholars of the ...

Until the fall of the al-Assad regime, the word “dollar” was forbidden in public. Instead, people used anything green – my ...

Bethlehem is marking another somber Christmas Eve under the shadow of war in Gaza. Manger Square lacked its usual festive ...

In his Christmas blessing, Pope Francis urged people and nations to take a transformative step toward peace and ...

“Jesus is the door of peace,” he said from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. 25. “This Christmas, at the beginning of ...

Prior to offering his blessing "urbi et orbi," Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine, the Holy Land, Lebanon and Syria, and in ...

He ordered the Torah defiled with the blood of pigs and commanded “that the lamp, which they call undying and which burns continually in the temple, should be extinguished.” At the climax of the ...

Pope Francis calls on all to walk through the door of peace this Christmas, overcoming divisions and striving for a just, ...

Pope Francis folds his hands in a gesture of gratitude as he greets visitors gathered in St. Peter's Square after ...