During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, the fez, or tarboosh, was more commonly worn by the urban educated elite, the effendi ...

Pope John Paul II, who helped Ronald Reagan topple the Soviet Union, will go down in history as the anti-communist pope.

I thought I was done with this subject for a while.

After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the Vatican chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its original place on the ...

The large olive wood Jesus Child with open arms, carved by the master artisans of Bethlehem in the Holy Land, has been placed ...

The Vatican's nativity scene reopens to the public, but without the controversial Palestinian symbol.

It's become trendy to demand an intifada from behind a keffiyeh used as a mask, but now we stare into the awful reality of ...

The horror, however, remains for those who are still trapped in Gaza, their lives forever marred by violence and loss.

I mean stories which were important but which didn’t generate a lot of buzz, either in the mainstream media or the ...

Topless Protestor Attempts to Steal Baby Jesus Statue** In a shocking display of disrespect for one of Christianity's most sacred symbols, a topless protestor from the feminist group Femen attempted ...

The small Christian village of Maaloula recalls what Julani's group was when they were still called Al Nusra. Here, in 2013, ...

The pontiff's condemnation of atrocities in Gaza reveals an increasing anger over Israel's actions in the holy land ...