Sri Lanka can be best described as south Asia in miniature form, filled with beaches, elephants, tea plantations, curries, ...

The Roman Empire faced a deadly plague during Valerian’s reign, weakening its strength at a critical moment. This video explores how disease, invasion, and poor decisions led to his downfall.

Archaeologists and students in the Netherlands have unearthed a 1,800-year-old temporary Roman military fort in the ...

Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for unity within the Catholic Church. He spoke to priests during a special Holy Year week ...

END OF AN EMPIRE IN ITS HEYDAY, ... Steel and other metal processing had employed 35,000 at its post-war peak in 1969, or one out of five manufacturing jobs. By 1980, ...

Pope Leo XIV is marking a feast day as the Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful ...

The time has nearly arrived. Six weeks from this Sunday, on Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent, the Catholic Church in the United States will begin praying a new English translation of the Mass.

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By Brian Pizzalato . In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament.

Fasting in the sense of not eating for a specific time upavasa or abstaining from specific substances during certain periods is a wellestablished part of all Hindu spiritual practices In the early tim ...

American clergymen Edward Robinson and Eli Smith began a Bible-guided survey of the Holy Land, producing a landmark ...