The early Byzantine fortress Tuida was integral to the defense system, and this was the fourth coin of this kind retrieved ...

It was a most remarkable wedding. Vanessa grew up in our United Methodist congregation. Marwan was a native of Damascus and a ...

It was just another bombing in a complicated corner of the Middle East, but this one was important — the Associated Press ...

Three miles north of the Inner Harbor, by Johns Hopkins University’s main campus, is the Baltimore Museum of Art, home of the ...

Nestled in Greene County, Ohio sits a village so enchanting, so unexpectedly lush with natural beauty that it feels like someone plucked a scene from a storybook and planted it firmly in the Midwest.

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

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Born aroud the year 50 in Syria, Ignatius was an Apostolic Father of the Church, a disciple, with Saint Polycarp, of Saint John the Evangelist, and the third bishop of Antioch, the former See of ...

The suicide bombing at St. Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus that killed more than 20 worshippers on Sunday (June 22) and injured dozens more is a tragic reminder of the vulnerability of Syria’s ...

The United States Supreme Court ruled Friday (June 27) that parents of public-school children in Montgomery County, Md., have ...

May 29, 2025 — The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods -- some of the first animals to make the transition ...