This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...

The Vatican introduced an anime-style mascot named Luce to represent Catholic pilgrims in the 2025 Jubilee year on Monday, ...

The Mass Chapel reminds us that the art of death in bone chapels echoes the ritual of death in the Eucharist. The strangeness ...

As archaeologists discover new ruins revealing the ancient origins of the church, new technologies reveal the extent of its destruction in Azerbaijan.

A team of German and Armenian archaeological researchers recently excavated the ruins of what’s said to be the oldest known ...

Before then, the influence of political Christianity was perhaps strongest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as rapid industrialization, widening economic inequality and mass migration ...

“The fourth-century building [offers] sensational evidence for early Christianity in Armenia,” says Achim Lichtenberger, an archaeologist at the University of Münster in Germany, in a statemen ...

Early Christian churches were often shaped like an octagon, which was an early Christian church symbol for the resurrection of Jesus and, more broadly, the rebirth of life. Archaeologists recently ...

More than half of the states offers residents a chance to vote early. Election Day may be a few weeks away, but in several states, including key battlegrounds, voters are casting their ballot ...

As a major survey of early Italian religious art ... But Western religious art, specifically Christian art, which fits less and less comfortably into an increasingly secularizing public culture ...

(This story was corrected to fix an error in the percentage of white voters for early voting results in Georgia.) Georgia is experiencing a record turnout of early ...

Early voting in the Nov. 5 general election starts Monday. In 1987, Texas became the first state to allow early voting, increasing the opportunity to cast an in-person ballot before election day ...