Penitents of ‘San Gonzalo’ brotherhood process through the streets of Seville during Holy Week in Spain, Monday, April 14, ...

This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when Catholic and Orthodox Easter celebrations coincide — an occasion to reflect ...

Famous Christian artists Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding have revived a third century hymn discovered on ancient Egyptian ...

Egypt has a population of around 111 million people, of whom 90 are Sunni Muslim and 10 are Although they re 11 million ...

In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

Churches dey hold processions and share palm fronds wey some dey later save and burn to create ashes for di following year ...

When Xenia Nikolskaya first went to Egypt in 2006, she thought she knew what she was looking for. Born and raised in the ...

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

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

COMMENTARY: This Easter, let us recall the 30 Ethiopian Orthodox martyrs and the tenuous, painful and yet real progress made ...

Today, Islam is practiced by the majority of Egypt's inhabitants, while a minority are Christian, many being part of the ...

In fact, this is the second case over the last three months over a conversion incident. In December, the decision of the wife of a Coptic Christian priest to embrace Islam triggered angry reactions ...