How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers ...

Christian intellectuals were purged from the Soviet Union; many died in prisons and concentration camps, the first of which was established in a former Orthodox monastery in the Solovetsky Islands ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic ... the work of St. Maron in the 4th century who founded a monastery east of Antioch. Later monks moved to the mountains ...

Thanks to a project backed by the Lombardy Region, Milan’s Ambrosiana Library has digitised an important collection of Arabic ...

the ruins of St. Colmcille’s sixth-century monastery and the intriguing Tau Cross that suggests early seafaring links to the Coptic Christians of Egypt. The island also boasts an abundance of ...

For the first time in its history, the Austrian Bishops' Conference is holding its spring plenary meeting at the Benedictine ...

and a well-known icon from an Egyptian monastery which I have in my office. The icon is called Christ the Pantocrator. The Coptic (Egyptian) communion considers itself the “church of the martyrs” and ...