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Both of my parents are Jewish, as were theirs, going as far back as anybody remembers – probably to Abraham. As with many ...
By Jennifer Galardi, First Things. (photo: Ruth Gledhill/Unsplash) ...
This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.
Well, not a war so much as a slow and worrisome sorting of men and women into different corners of Christianity.
Egypt has ordered the closure of the world's oldest continuously functioning Christian monastery, much to the fury of ...
A court ruling in Cairo to seize the historical Monastery of St Catherine, evict the monk' community and operate it as a museum has shocked ...
While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...
The pope's remarks came during his homily at Mass at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, where he took possession of the ...
A surge of people converting to Orthodox Christianity is helping local parishes here buck the national trend of declining ...
Archaeologists excavating a burial site in Israel s Negev Desert have uncovered rare bone and ebony figurines in three early ...
After decades of steady decline, the share of Americans identifying as Christian has stabilized. One reason is the unexpected ...
Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Rowan Williams, discuss fresh perspectives on ...