Byzantine general George Maniakes who chalenged emperor Michael IV, leads a cavalry charge against the Arabs. Credit: Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons After the tremendously successful reign of Basil ...

Credit: Domenico Ghirlandaio / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the Italian ...

The Byzantine Empire was built on the backs of the rural and urban labour force. From agricultural production and the extraction of raw materials to the physical construction of urban centres and ...

A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Good ...

Its powers won’t stretch to encompass those exercised by the General Synod, as that body can affect national law, whereas the ecclesial assembly’s role will be more evaluative and advisory ...

A new study from the United Kingdom has found that among members of Gen Z in the U.K., Catholics now outnumber Anglicans 2 to 1 — part of a pattern observed across all age groups whereby ...

Imagine yourself in my position. Seven years ago I, a lifetime non-believer, surrendered to a student’s invitation and joined her at her church in a small wooded area in a suburb of Vancouver. I had ...