Chris Spencer Syria's Alawites were seen as favored by the regime of Bashar al Assad, now more than 1,300 Alawites have been murdered in 2025 in Syria. Early 2025 saw Syria's fragile post-Assad ...

Memories and reflections on Martin E. Marty, a scholar of remarkable influence, kindness, and wit, from a friend and ...

Newly excavated site in Ostia Antica, dating as early as the 3rd century CE, offers fresh insight and new enigmas about the ...

The rock walls that must be traversed to reach Abuna Yemata Guh (Photo: Wittmann Tours). Disagreements within Ethiopian Christianity began very early. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church was founded in 341.

It holds your hands through the foundation of Rome, with excessive concern dedicated to the Aeneid, to the rise of the ...

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of ...

The San Pedro Fish Market, located at 706 S Harbor Blvd., and its Long Beach and Wilmington locations are hosting Fish ...

The Byzantine Empire made remarkable contributions to medicine and science, even thouth they are not widely known.

Catherine Mowry LaCugna, who died in 1997 at only 44 years of age, brought new life to Trinitarian theology and inspired a ...

Who is responsible for the birth of Christianity? As with any major phenomenon, the answer is complex. Christianity developed ...

A skeleton that was found shackled with thick mental chains and weighed down with iron plates has turned out to be female, ...