(RNS) — I did not grow up with Ash Wednesday. My childhood was mostly spent in nondenominational churches that were liturgically spare...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the 15th century, the basilica that Emperor Constantine had built around the tomb of St. Peter was...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — At a memorial ceremony in central Kenya in early February, a photograph perched on a chair, with roses...

MILAN (AP) — A 15th-century statue that once stood outside Milan’s iconic Duomo has found a new home. The Bearded Saint with...

CAIRO (AP) — Observant Muslims the world over will soon be united in a ritual of daily fasting from dawn to sunset...

CAIRO (AP) — One of Gaza’s last functioning large hospitals condemned the decision by Doctors Without Borders to pull out of operations...

DAMASCUS (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency said Sunday that a large number of residents of a camp housing family members of...

(RNS) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., a longtime civil rights activist who twice vied for the Democratic nomination in the 1980s,...

(RNS) — The past few weeks, I’ve received many digital reminders of the arrival of the most blessed of months in the Islamic...