The Balkans in general and Macedonia in particular have been ... Yet, although language served as a group marker, religion was a more important source of identity in Ottoman Turkey where it ...

A map showing the Giurgiulesti International Free Port, Moldova. Photo: ICS Danube Logistics SRL If the export of oil products such as diesel from Moldova to Ukraine through the Giurgiulesti port ...

Police in the Balkans arrested 11 alleged members of a criminal syndicate responsible for smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe, Croatia said Wednesday, in the latest effort to crack down ...

Rising temperatures and melting glaciers are altering the ways humans pray and threatening the existence of sacred traditions ...

The Holy Father’s vision of global solidarity and interreligious fraternity has found a foothold in this predominantly Muslim ...

Poland in 1938 was not a good place to be if you were Jewish. Boycotts against Jewish businesses, antisemitic legislation and ...

To early Christians, ancient gladiators were potent symbols of martyrdom, embodying virtue and bravery despite being enslaved.

The Byzantine Catholic Church in the US has accomplished many great things and brought countless souls to bask in the light ...

Photo illustration: Freepik The trial over the unexplained deaths of 32 elderly residents of a private nursing home on the Greek island of Crete opened on Wednesday at the Criminal Appeals Court ...

What good is a language if it’s too sacred to use? This year, on the occasion of the Feast of the Holy Translators, ...

The discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia some 15 years ago kicked off a race to unravel the mysteries of an ...

Zibtsev says it's possible that the Holy Mountains might never be totally de-mined. He cites the examples of some Balkan ...