For di year 449, Pope Leo I establish di date for commemorating di birth of Jesus as one of di main feasts of di Catholic ...

Tunisia is home to some of the most significant Roman and Punic ruins in North Africa: Dougga is considered the best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa. It features a mix of Punic, Numidian, ...

Every Christmas, Christians celebrate the birth of a child born into oppression – an occupied land, a climate of political ...

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's ...

"Xmas" is not a modern attempt to remove Christ from Christmas but a sacred abbreviation rooted in early Christian tradition, using the Greek letter chi to represent "Christos." ...

Mr. Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of 'The Second World Wars: ...

Chelleh Night, or Shab-e Yalda, takes place at the time of the winter solstice, around December 21, the longest night of the ...

Twelve Churches succeeds in its ambitious goal of revealing Christianity's global complexity through architecture and human ...

Long after emperors ruled, a group of Roman senators still clung to tradition and power. But their fate was sealed by politics, war and time. Discover the overlooked story of how the Senate vanished ...

About 2,000 years ago there lived a young woman named Mary. She lived in the small town of Nazareth in what is now the ...

This Roman senator wrote some of the greatest letters in history. Here’s how Pliny the Younger’s words have kept ancient Rome ...

Every December, as the world adorns itself with stars and bells, something deeper than festivity fills the air — a moral fragrance that whispers of love, sacrif ...