During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

The "remarkable" church, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, was found in an ancient city by a desert oasis.

The relic dispayed just above the tomb of St. Peter will be accessible for public viewing until Dec. 8, the solemnity of the ...

The Port of New Orleans plans to “revitalize” the Alabo Street Wharf into a terminal for organic grain. Neighbors in Holy ...

In ‘Church Going’, the poem that gives this charming book its title, Philip Larkin talks about ‘one of the crew that tap and jot and know what rood-lofts were… Some ruin-bibber, randy for antique’.

A rare 13th-century Bible could return to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral more than 700 years after it was written.

Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European traditions. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light ...

It’s no great surprise, therefore, that we find evidence of that particular, peculiar practice of structured play that we ...

This is one person's ultimate Ireland bucket list - from the surf up North to going on a ghost hunt. What would be on your ...

The Cyrillic alphabet was invented there in the 9th century AD. Bulgaria’s Valley of the Roses is ... Then we visited the ...

A campaign to return a 13th-century copy of the Bible to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral has been hailed by the ...

It’s now possible to wander the St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican emptied of tourists and worshippers. This comes courtesy ...