Although Nonnatus House has been in this position many times before, this time around feels the most serious. While Sister ...

The last deaconess of the Armenian Church was Hripsime Sasunian, who died in 2007. A decade after her death, in 2017, ...

Archaeologists believed they had unearthed the remains of a Byzantine monk buried beneath an ancient monastery in Jerusalem.

Many such shrines appeared in the Jiali area in 1895 due to deaths caused by military suppression of anti-Japanese resistance ...

nunneries or hermitages, there to “lose themselves in prayer,” either enduring, more or less serenely, their live burial, as it must have seemed to their more worldly contemporaries ...

Convening next week for its annual gathering, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will mark 30 years since the famous Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, also known as the “Be ...

Historians call it the Bauernkrieg or German Peasants’ War, but to people at the time it was simply the Aufruhr (‘the turmoil’). Through the second half of 1524 and into the summer of 1525, rebellion ...

Following increased attention to Southeast Asia’s online scam industry, especially since the high-profile abduction and rescue of Chinese actor Wang Xing from a compound on the Myanmar-Thailand ...