Archaeologists excavating beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem s Old City have uncovered evidence of an ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 25.​ Heads of religious confessions in Azerbaijan have sent an appeal to the UK Prime Minister Keir ...

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A landmark excavation, set to conclude soon at Old City of Jerusalem church, has offered unprecedented historical insights. ToI gets a sneak peek ...

The question is who the ideal ruler was, which Aurangzeb was not. Some say it was Akbar, but the Hindu right hates him with ...

As Lebanon teeters on the edge, Beirut’s people live between resilience and ruin, caught in an unending cycle of conflict ...

Sarmad, a Persian-speaking Armenian Sufi, was said to be a Jewish interloper who converted to Islam though only to be denounced as a heretic by Aurangzeb’s orthodox advisers. Sarmad’s grave ...

There was a bar car too, where one could find not only a cocktail but also Wi-Fi and, in the evenings, top-notch background music played by Artur Bobikyan, an accomplished Armenian concert pianist.

The cock crows a little after 6am in East Beirut, slowly stirring the people of Gemmayzeh from their beds. One might think it unusual that a bird could wake so many in a city synonymous with noise.

These rites so listed: Latin, Byzantine, Alexandrian, Syriac, Armenian, Maronite ... similar if not identical to the liturgy used by the Orthodox churches. After the schism between the churches ...