While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

PALMYRA, Syria (AP) — Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites ... hub to the ancient Silk Road network linking the Roman and Parthian empires to Asia.

461: St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, dies this day in 461, according to legend; his feast day is now celebrated widely ...

Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites ... Palmyra was once a key hub to the ancient Silk Road network linking the Roman and Parthian empires to Asia.

The black-and-white thinking in our politics brings to mind a skill that the state of Texas requires me to teach my college ...

A priest in Ukraine has given an account of his role in offering spiritual support to soldiers on the frontline of the ...

Located in the Syrian desert, it is renowned for its 2,000-year-old Roman-era ruins. It is now marked by shattered columns and damaged temples. Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011 and soon ...

Love is said to be blind because it covers a multitude of wrongdoing. That is another reason why it hurts. It hurts to forgive and foster a good relationship. Imitating the Lord and his love for us, ...

Anora” won best picture at the 97th Academy Awards, closing out a fairy-tale Oscars night for Sean Baker’s raw and irreverent tale of a Brooklyn sex worker. “The Brutalist,” “Wicked,” and “Emilia ...

Just before breaking the Ramadan fast on Sunday evening, Hasan Zaheda played basketball with his son in the tiny courtyard of the basement-level apartment on Rome’s outskirts where the refugee family ...

It's of Hans Lang, who holds the Guinness World Record for the longest natural beard for a male — his beard measured 17.6 ft ...