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

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

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 ...

A stunning archaeological breakthrough in the Middle East has brought one of the Holy Land's forgotten cities back into the spotlight. Experts believe they have uncovered the ancient Byzantine-era ...

The archaeological site of the ancient Byzantine-era Christian settlement of Tharais - lost for centuries - has been found in ...

The Byzantine Christian settlement has been discovered in Jordan, marked on the Madaba Mosaic Map, the oldest surviving ...

The Eastern and Western Roman Empires had a layered history, experienced a major division, and left lasting cultural and ...

On July 16, 1054, the Great Schism divided Christianity into the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, driven by disputes over papal authority and theology, reshaping Europe’s religious ...

Publication date 2008 Topics Byzantine Empire -- History -- 527-1081, Byzantine Empire -- History -- 1081-1453 Publisher Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press Collection ...

Belisarius was the Byzantine military genius behind Justinian's conquests. His incredible victories were overshadowed by an unjust downfall.

Recent ICE activity near two Catholic churches in San Bernardino County has drawn concern from church officials and sparked public debate over the sanctity of religious spaces in immigration ...

Immigration arrests near two Inland Empire Catholic churches have sparked backlash and raised questions about ICE operations on religious grounds.