Guatemalan authorities searched the compound of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect Wednesday, taking four Canadian minors into ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...

Leo XIV, the first ever American pope, will be formally inaugurated as the 267th pontiff Sunday during a special Mass in St.

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

Under the leadership of Ramzan Kadyrov, the predominantly Muslim southern Russian republic of Chechnya has maintained a high degree of autonomy while remaining loyal to the Kremlin and Russian ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, began his papacy with a richly-symbolic inaugural Mass, celebrated at the Vatican before a crowd of 150,00 people.

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

Orthodox crosses have been erased from book covers, posters, signage—you name it. But never before on official state symbols. Now it's happened. The Russian coat of arms shown in the video from ...

Pope Leo XIV was greeted by crowds of faithful as he arrived in St. Peter’s Square for his inauguration mass, attended by ...

I will celebrate that I came to Yale in part to escape my Orthodox upbringing, only to find myself writing my last papers on Jews in English literature.