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.

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

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

Christian nationalism was a flop when the Puritans tried it. See this famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture for information ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

"What I ask of my generation is to see this newfound religion, however, as a way we can be more loving, more empathetic, more ...

During the upcoming Jubilee year, millions of Christian pilgrims will flock to the Eternal City’s innumerable holy places.

The legacy of the Byzantine Empire in the Balkans stretches back for centuries. Today’s politics should remember that the idea of Balkan states as homogenous entities is not natural. This is a ...

from the only Roman boxing gloves found from anywhere in the Roman Empire to early medieval Christian graffiti. What’s most exciting of all, however, is that there are still so many more ...