Pope Francis was praised by several regional leaders and churches, including Lebanon's Maronite Church and Iraqi officials, ...

Soviet repression caused most Georgian Jews to flee, leaving behind a 2,500-year-old history whose memory is beginning to ...

After 35 years of conservative papal rule – 50 if you include Pope Paul VI who was described as “a liberal heart and a ...

The scale of the suffering that Israel has inflicted on all Palestinians within its reach has meant that Hamas’ fate is ...

But the main council of Sunni mosques in Iraq fired the imam last winter ... balancing his 5-year-old son, Omar, in his lap. "And this is the legal right for any nation." Abu Mohammed told ...

Not long ago, Iraq was viewed as a kind of hell on Earth. But the country has recovered its stability, and the government is ...

A 37-year-old man from Turkey was arrested hours later; the Dutch justice minister said it is unclear what… The shocking massacre of 50 people attending Friday prayers at mosques in Christchurch ...

For the past decade, the “Ghost of Reem Island,” as she was referred to in the press, has haunted me.

Embedded in the centre of the mihrab, or prayer niche, of the 16th-century Masjid Al Ali is a Chinese porcelain dish.Other mosques in Oman have similar examples of Chinese porcelain, and broken ...

The Trump administration wants Damascus to crack down on extremists and expel Palestinian militants in return for a limited ...

As we embrace the Lord’s Passion, let us share in His agony – and the pain of the persecuted in the world today ...