Russia and Turkey’s international religious influence relies on a specific national narrative – one that is challenged by the ...

For the occasion of the Easter Season, we spoke about some of the demographic and historical backgrounds of the various ...

ON a recent afternoon in Bila Tserkva, a quiet city in central Ukraine, a 59-year-old history teacher settled into a ...

That is why most popes in history have chosen the name John. After stating his new name, the new pope is taken to the so-called "Room of Tears", an antechamber in the Sistine Chapel, where he first ...

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