In a seemingly analogous (but not strictly corresponding) fashion, the Hasidic tzaddik distributes the leftovers of his third ...

Istanbul’s skyline appears to be peppered with look-alike large mosques with Byzantine-style domes and ... built in the 16th century to rival the Hagia Sophia, on the orders of Sultan Süleyman ...

Why did two Arabian Jewish rabbis save from destruction — at the hand of an Arabian Jewish king — a pagan-controlled sanctuary in Makkah when it was filled with idols? Keep in mind that idols are ...

Instead, the eyes of the world will be on St Peter's Basilica this morning as the pontiff who did so much to restore the ...

The church still grew under Francis, especially in Africa, expanding globally by nearly 11 percent ... aim at corruption within the Vatican’s byzantine bureaucracy, though he could not keep ...

Art Diary, I include three exhibitions involving gardens – at Gainsborough's House, Philip Mould and Company, and Waddesdon ...

The result evokes Georges Seurat, Byzantine iconography, even digital imaging. The exhibition then follows Whitten chronologically for roughly half a century. A suite of early ... of works named after ...

The church still grew under Francis, especially in Africa, expanding globally by nearly 11 percent. But the pace was slightly ... He took aim at corruption within the Vatican’s byzantine bureaucracy, ...

For the last 18 months, the MSU’s 19th Century arts faculty building, with its amalgam of Indian and Byzantine arches and its peculiar ... the Faculty of Arts building resembles the English alphabet ...

The International Byzantine Greek Summer School (IBGSS), directed by Dr Anthony Hirst, moved to Dublin in 2016 after many years of success at Queen’s University Belfast (2002-11) and the University ..

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re blesses the coffin as he leads the funeral Mass of Pope Francis, in Saint Peter's Square, at the Vatican, April 26, 2025. He threw in his lot with the Jesuits, the Church ...