An ancient city from the Byzantine era, once thought lost to time, has been rediscovered in southern Jordan. Known as Tharais ...

This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

COMMENTARY: The solemn sign of reverence and humility links Catholics with their Eastern Orthodox brethren by tapping into ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Pope Leo XIV offered to host or facilitate peace talks between warring parties in pursuit of global peace, but Moscow has ...

Ukraine is of visceral significance to the Russian Orthodox Church because it is seen as the cradle of the Rus’ civilisation, a medieval entity where in the 10th century Byzantine Orthodox ...