Marking another in a series of recent surprise public appearances, Pope Francis on Sunday briefly greeted thousands of ...

FOR centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and ...

Second Peter chapter 1 exhorts us to “make every effort to confirm your calling”(v. 10a NIV). It seems odd that Peter would write this to people who were in the very early stage of an exciting new ...

Among the wilderness, there are places for contemplation, if one knows where to look: park benches, lonely taverne, C-list baroque churches bereft of any Carravaggios or Berninis. In search of a place ...

For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and ...

My grandmother, Annig Abroyan, was born in AfyonKaraHisar sometime around 1900. She didn’t know the exact date—or even the ...

From the reignited decades-old dispute over who controls the Mahabodhi temple in Gaya to Prime Minister Modi's recent visit ...

Assisi has long been a place of pilgrimage, but these days the faithful come not for Saint Francis but for a tech-savvy teen ...

In the footsteps of the pilgrims”: this is the title of the walk along stage 17 of the Via Francigena del Sud; a path that, ...

Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam and a profound spiritual journey undertaken by millions of Muslims every year. As ...

More than 20,000 pilgrims from 90 countries — including patients, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, and other ...

Eugenio Alliata's office in Jerusalem resembles any archaeology workshop that prefers fieldwork. On the overcrowded shelves, ...