Neither Sarah nor Hagar/Ha-jar are mentioned by name in the Qur’an, but the story of Ha-jar’s exile from Abraham’s home is traditionally understood to be referred to in a line from Ibrāhīm’s prayer in ...

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Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

A rare Mediterranean monk seal was discovered dead on Ma'agan Michael Beach near Haifa, March 22, 2025. (photo credit: Ilya Baskin, ISRAEL NATURE AND PARKS AUTHORITY) A rare Mediterranean monk ...

The small Texas town of Fairview and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been in a stalemate for the ...

A rare Chinese temple from the Gold Rush era will continue to be on display in Lewiston, but it’s going to have a new home. Artifacts from the Beuk Aie Temple are moving from the Lewis-Clark State ...

While members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Montpelier, Idaho will be waiting until 2026 for their own Montpelier Temple to be completed, since the temple ...

My 30-year-old-daughter and I are on a week-long AmaWaterways Mekong River cruise. Our journey starts with two pre-cruise ...

SLIIT is a degree-awarding higher education institute authorized and approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and ...

There is a vast and increasingly interesting body of literature on the ways in which small and militarily and economically ...