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WBUR’s inaugural festival kicks off Thursday and will bring brilliant minds from across fields to Boston University’s campus.

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As the Pontifical Ethiopian College hosts the presentation of a new edition of the Ge‘ez-language Missal, Cardinal Prefect ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...

The history of the spiritual center began with the miraculous appearance of the Icon of the Mother of God. A legend has it that this happened in 1470.

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented Pope Leo XIV with a religious icon, painted on wood that had seen the ...

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The holy icon of Panagia Soumela, located in the homonymous Holy Church in Vermio, northern Greece, is the symbol of Hellenism in Pontus.