In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

The fall of Constantinople, on May 29,1453 was the final phase of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars and the darkest page in Greek ...

May 29, 1453, marks a dark chapter in the history of our people and the world, the dramatic fall of the Queen of Cities, ...

COMMENTARY: The solemn sign of reverence and humility links Catholics with their Eastern Orthodox brethren by tapping into spiritual medicine promoted by Pope Leo XIV.

While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Baruch Herzfeld, the co-founder of PopWheels, studies Talmud to steel himself for dealing with city bureaucracy.

Egypt has ordered the closure of the world's oldest continuously functioning Christian monastery, much to the fury of ...

A court ruling in Cairo to seize the historical Monastery of St Catherine, evict the monk' community and operate it as a museum has shocked ...

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

The Vermont Supreme Court has upheld a Lamoille County Superior Court decision that found a Stowe resident owes ...

Almost 15 centuries after its foundation, the oldest Christian monastery in operation puts "lock" and even in a period of ...