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

It was destroyed in the sixth century and is likely the oldest synagogue outside of Israel.Among the remains of the Second ...

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

The Dadivank Monastery, which is located in Artsakh’s now occupied Karvachar region, has been handed over to Azerbaijan's Udi community, Monument Watch reported.

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

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.

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

Armenians, a population in Western Asia historically inhabiting the Armenian highlands, were long believed to be descendants of Phrygian settlers from the Balkans. This theory originated largely from ...

Puritans and Pilgrims came out of the same religious culture of 1570s England. Pilgrims hosted the first American ...

Aquileia, a small town in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy, is now a modest place with barely 3,000 ...

From Boone, North Carolina to Wild Coast, South Africa, these undertouristed destinations are 25 of the best places around ...