Pride of place above the fireplace in the sitting room of our little house in distant Blighty is a painting from North Bengal ...

Saint Catherine’s Monastery was the place where God spoke to Prophet Moses and manifested to him on the mountain.

Actual wine flowed from fountains during the couple’s 1796 wedding festivities, and if all went according to plan, Konstantin and Julie would rule over Constantinople — once Catherine took it.

This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time ...

But the real treasures lie inside the gracefully proportioned ... Moldovița Monastery bears an epic scene of the Siege of Constantinople, while Voronet Monastery, known as the ‘Sistine Chapel ...

According to a new ritual he approved last year, the body will be placed in a wooden coffin, with a zinc coffin inside ... over meeting with the pope White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ...

The lifelong relationship between Nikos Kazantzakis and Greece’s first female philosopher is vividly captured in his hundreds ...

Legend has it that two monks hid silkworm eggs inside a bamboo pole to smuggle ... the eggs to Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in Constantinople, where he created a thriving silk industry.

A woman prays inside Buenos Aires' Metropolitan Cathedral ... Nancy Pelosi (D-California), the first female Speaker of the House and a San Francisco Catholic, said in a statement: "His Holiness ...

There’s something extraordinary about walking the same streets where ancient philosophers debated, kings and queens ruled, ...