Lord, have mercy. In certain Lenten services this invocation is repeated forty times while the body bends down and rises again. The gesture is simple and ancient. Knees bend, hands touch the earth, ...

The American military has ordered 2,500 Marines and an amphibious assault ship to the Middle East, a U.S. official said ...

Germany has cracked down on speech and demonstrations that assert support for Palestinians and accuse Israel of atrocities, even since Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in October 2025.

In the war the US launched on the Islamic Republic, the US secretary of war, as he prefers to be called, likes to talk about how the Christian God is on his side.

Gov. Ron DeSantis' office included language in an early bill draft requiring universities report foreign students promoting ...

Humanitarian NGOs face criticism for politicising the term “genocide.”Oxfam, MSF, and Gift of the Givers accused of bias ...

A large explosion rocked an area of Iran’s capital where thousands were gathered Friday for an annual state-organized rally ...

President Catherine Connolly's recent statement on the crisis in the Middle East is being viewed by many as a pointed intervention in the early months of her seven-year presidency. Is this a sign of ...

By The Associated Press Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei says that the leverage of closing the Strait of Hormuz should be used and that Iran’s attacks on Gulf Arab ...

Washington, like many times before, projects its own assumptions onto a political culture it only half understands ...