Sepp Blatter has always loved maritime analogies. He promised to guide FIFA into a safe port, but Tuesday his ship foundered on the rocks after 17 years at...
Israeli police say they forcibly removed dozens of Jewish protesters trying to prevent a Christian ritual from taking place at a holy site revered in both...
Israeli police say they have charged a Palestinian man with killing a Polish tourist in Israel in April
In a small beige building in a leafy Stockholm suburb, Maria Sjodin bustles around her design studio putting the finishing touches on her sleek fashions for...
Greece has about 300 indigenous grape varieties and these are featuring in the rebirth of the country’s wine industry, particularly in northern Greece.
Luis Figo and Michael van Praag pulled out of the FIFA presidential election race Thursday, leaving Jordan’s Prince Ali bin al-Hussein as the only challenger...
Malek Jandali may only have been alive for four decades but the award-winning composer insists he feels ancient, having revived some of the oldest melodies...
Pope Francis canonized two nuns from what was 19th-century Palestine Sunday in hope of encouraging Christians across the Middle East who are facing a wave of...
Pope Francis has canonized two nuns from what was 19th century Palestine in hopes of encouraging Christians across the Middle East who are facing a wave of...
Italy is teeming with places that make you feel like you are on a movie set – the Trevi Fountain in Rome, the Amalfi coast near Naples and Venice’s lagoons...
The Holy Land’s Christians are excitedly preparing for next week’s canonization of two Arab nuns, bringing some joy to a tiny community that has had little to...
A Singaporean teenager has pleaded not guilty to two charges over an online video he posted that was critical of Christianity and the nation's late founding...
Jerusalem's Latin Patriarchate on Wednesday hailed the upcoming canonization by Pope Francis of two nuns who will become the first modern-day Palestinian...
Philippe Skaff used to be an ad man, but those days are behind him. “I left that business because after a while you just feel you are a hired hand for lying,”...
Pope Francis made an impassioned plea for an end to the salary gap between men and women, calling it "a scandal" that Christians should decisively reject.
The Armenian Church on Thursday conferred sainthood on some 1.5 million Armenians massacred by Ottoman forces a century ago, in what is believed to be the...
Sitting in his workshop among the winding streets of Tripoli’s Old City, Abdulwahab al-Saudi bangs away at a piece of copper.
Across the world, Orthodox Christians are celebrating Easter, commemorating the day followers believe Jesus was resurrected 2,000 years ago.
Thousands of Christian pilgrims filled Jerusalem's ancient Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Saturday for the "Holy Fire" ceremony on the eve of Orthodox Easter.
n the early 1980s Bulgaria was the world’s second largest producer of wine. International varieties had been introduced in the 1960s to replace traditional...