One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

India has had a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India.

Long lines at Santa Maria Maggiore to visit the austere niche where the Pope has rested since yesterday. We enter Santa Maria Maggiore accompanying Sister Esperanza. Her 93 years, her fragile balance, ...

The body of a saint who died in Seattle is said to have been "incorrupt," having not decomposed in 27 years. How is this ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

The late Pope Francis continued his legacy as an open-armed trailblazer by opening the sacred portal of the Vatican and dying ...

With the holy commemorations of Good Friday and Easter for Roman Catholics, Orthodox Greeks and other Christian denominations ...

A tiny church built in the trunk of a huge tree dedicated to Saint Paisios draws thousands of visitors each year from Greece ...

ROME, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital — In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He ...

“The earth loses a defender,” wrote the Mapuche Confederation of Neuquén, an Indigenous rights organization in Argentina, on ...

Just before we arrived at this Southern California church in pursuit of the sacred, Stan was indulging the profane. Is there ...