Christianity spread across the Roman Empire through persecution, cultural adaptation, and the transformation of pagan beliefs ...

Across Europe, many medieval churches stand on land that was considered sacred long before Christianity arrived. At first ...

Christmas is one of the most celebrated festivals in the world, recognised not only as a religious observance but also as a global cultural phenomenon. For many, it is a time of joy, family gatherings ...

Aside from Easter, Christmas is perhaps Christianity’s most sacred date. As a celebration of Christ’s birth, the holiday is ...

Huge carved obelisks and stelas in northern Ethiopia were erected by the kings of the Aksum Empire, who ruled the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region for much of the first millennium A.D. The toppled ...

A Christian empire that inherited classical learning, Byzantium preserved pagan texts via schools, new script, scholia, and ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

According to the Orthodox Eastern Church, the spirit of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin now ought to have embarked in heaven or hell. The religion believes it takes 40 days after death for souls to ...

Why would an ancient, folkloric, but non-Biblical, character such as a mermaid find its way into so many medieval European churches? And can such mermaid imagery and symbology be correlated with the ...

Walk through any major city in Europe or North America, and you’ll see that virtually every metropolis is pantheistic. Rarely is any religion dominant, but many are existing together. Temples, mosques ...