Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul by Atatürk’s government, capping a campaign begun in 1916 by Enver Pasha that ...

Palestinians across the Middle East are commemorating the anniversary of the “Nakba” -- Arabic for “the Catastrophe” -- when ...

Archaeologists working in the Tangier Peninsula, in northwest Morocco, have discovered ancient cemeteries, rock art and ...

Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...

WashU announced plans to rename the Robert J. Terry endowed Professorship in the School of Medicine and the annual Robert J. Terry Lecture Series in the Neuroscience Department, following a ...

Pope Leo XIV asked journalists to be peacemakers by shunning prejudice and anger in their reporting, and he called for the ...

As the Ottomans continued their rise after the Fall of Constantinople, a brutal resistance emerged in Wallachia. This Kings ...

The journey to Nicaea for the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea is expected to be the first international trip of ...

The Council of Nicaea in the year 325 was, arguably, the most theologically significant and influential gathering of ...

Home-grown vegetables, heritage pulses and hand-rolled pasta define a community feast in the remote mountaintop town of ...

Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...