As new flights connect western Europe and Tbilisi, Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent explores the wide-open spaces of the little-visited Javakheti plateau ...

As the Vatican prepares to end viewings at St Peter's Basilica at 19:00 local time (18:00 BST), the BBC has spoken to the ...

In Gaza, like much of the West Bank, traditional Easter festivities were replaced by quiet church services and symbolic ...

Chaplain Volodymyr was in the middle of his Easter prayer near the front in Ukraine's Donetsk region when another explosion ...

Born in Argentina as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first Pope from Latin America was also the first Jesuit to be ordained a pope ...

Oleksandr was unable to withhold his tears as he thought of celebrating Easter -- the most important religious holiday for Orthodox Christians ... "You can hear the guns now.

One member of the border police, an anti-terrorist force, was seen aiming his gun at a member of the Greek Orthodox Scouts. The scenes of Israeli armed police pushing Christian priests ...

Israel Police have been accused of turning Jerusalem's Old City into a "militarised zone" and blocking worshippers from praying over Easter, after violent scuffles broke out near one of Christianity's ...