Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

This year marks the 400th anniversary of St Isidore's College, an Irish Franciscan landmark and Ireland's national church in ...

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

The site, which likely once housed a roman cavalry unit, shows evidence of the respect soldiers had for their mounts.

In order to avoid continued outside interference, Pope Gregory X in the 13th century adopted a new procedure: the conclave. Cardinals would remain in a locked location – from the Latin cum clave, ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Whether biking to castles or kayaking through gorges, a trip centred on this river is the epitome of European romance.

As the world mourns the passing of Pope Francis, the first pope from the Americas and the first Jesuit to lead the Roman ...

India has had a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India.

In a further break with tradition, he was the first pope to be buried outside the Vatican in more than a century, preferring Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major, some 2.5 miles from St. Peter's, as his ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...