This episode begins season two of the animated documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire. After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans began reshaping the city into their imperial ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

When Robert Prevost was elected pope this week, he chose one of the most popular papal names. The lives of the Pope Leos who ...

This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time ...

Dubrovnik, from the 14th century to today, has employed practices that closely align with modern-day public diplomacy principles.

Pope Francis was deeply committed to ecumenism and maintained close ties with leaders like Bartholomew I, Patriarch of Constantinople, Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, and ...

Pritzker is holding out for assurances before Illinois will transfer property the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needs to begin construction on the long-awaited fortifications at a chokepoint dam on ...

Yet we are being forced to break all canonical rules and to unilaterally place ourselves under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople,” ERR reported. In March, Metropolitan ...

According to tradition, it was discovered in Jaffa in the fourth century by St. Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, and later gifted by Empress Irene of Constantinople to Charlemagne in the ...