Imagine stepping into a church that looks fully Orthodox—icons, incense, chanting, bearded priests—but it's actually Catholic ...

David French: I’m David French. I’m an Opinion columnist at The Times, where I write about law, politics and religion. I’m ...

The Greek island paradise of Lemnos is an alluring blend of natural beauty, history, and off-the-beaten-path charm.

However, outside the vaults, archaeologists uncovered about 150 post-medieval burials in the courtyard, and another 170 ...

As immigrants increasingly fill its pews in Spain, the Catholic Church is advocating more inclusive policies to the broader ...

A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

Archaeologists working at two separate sites in Europe have made strikingly similar discoveries beneath former department ...

But hidden among the famous capitals are dozens of smaller towns and cities that most travelers have never heard of. If ...

European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

A religious resurgence is taking shape, slowly but surely, on Tahoe’s West Shore. Sparked a century ago, a vision to bring an arm of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel to Tahoma has ...

The abbey, founded in 1115 in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, was home to one of the largest monastic libraries in medieval Europe. Some 1,450 volumes of the abbey’s extensive corpus ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.