The Cathars appeared in Europe in the eleventh century, their origins something of a mystery though there is reason to ...

The fifth-century bishop of Ravenna, famed for his brief but brilliant sermons, is honored as a Doctor of the Church.

Built at the foot of Mount Vermion, the of Veria, Greece was the second most-important town, after Aigai, in the ancient ...

Tenedos holds a significant place in Greek history, despite the sharp decline in its Greek population in recent decades.

Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia ...

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) was conquered by the Ottoman Turks.

Whether in the misty fjords of the North or the Dnieper River in Kyiv, baptism was often a coerced conversion — a communal ...

Outside of Greece's more famous cities, you'll find an ancient mountain town that is home to unique monasteries, churches, and prehistoric caves.

The modern principle of pluralism holds two ideas in tension: Believers should be free to spread their faith, while minority ...

They sat in pews under a coffered ceiling, dourly communing with El Santo, the patron saint of what would come to be called ...

A crisis of language is a crisis of culture, and to see why there is waning interest in one, we must identify how we relate ...

Imagine a world where the Byzantine Empire never fell—how would history, religion, and geopolitics have evolved?