The Holy Father Pope Francis speaks often about the peripheries (EG 20). The concept of the peripheries and the Church’s mission to them, however, is nothing new. In fact, it is very, very ancient.

This late-19th century robe from the Nuxalk people at Bella Coola is one of more than 60 treasures in the first-ever ...

Next week, on April 8, we mark the life of another Francis who, it is believed, is also a role model for the new Pope.

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and enslavement despite shared faith. In Ethiopia, Portuguese Jesuits rejected ...

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

Without organized traditional religion, Americans are inclined to fill the void with something far worse than “love thy neighbor.” ...

The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

Why did the inhabitants of Greece retain the name "Romans"? – What was happening during the years of the Turkish occupation? ...

Some say that we are re-living the 1930's. I disagree. Today, the danger to Jews is far graver and more complex than it was in the pagan or medieval-Christian world, or during World War Two.

A. A mark is a given and known sign by which a thing can be distinguished from all others of its kind. Thus a trademark is used to distinguish the article bearing it from all imitations of the ...

The King, who never realized that Esther was Jewish, is outraged at Haman. He has his minister executed. In subsequent conversations with Esther, Achasverosh grants the Jews the right to self-defense ...