The newly elected Pope Leo XIV, formerly missionary Robert Prevost from Chicago, is an avid tennis enthusiast. His election coincided with ...

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Olympics 2024 opening ceremony act has drawn sharp reactions from Elon Musk, right-wing politicians.

Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage under civil law. However, most majority-Orthod...

A list of celebs who left us in 2023.

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Technically, they’re on the ‘same side’ — Christianity and capitalism, with the author of Das Kapital a possible visual model for the Man i...

Palestinian PM Mohammad Shtayyeh said mosques, churches and businesses would reopen in an easing of anti-pandemic curbs.

UK scientists have used 3D interactive technology to produce the "most realistic" portrait of the saint who came to be known as Santa Claus.

It is not surprising that Germans are worried about a certain ho-ho-ho-ing white-bearded fella from across the Atlantic swamping their own ...