On certain Sunday mornings in America, you can still hear a church bell toll across an otherwise silent neighborhood. The sound is familiar, but the congregation it once summoned has vanished. Pews ...

Pope Leo XIV looks up at the ceiling of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, more commonly called the Blue Mosque, in Istanbul during a visit Nov. 29, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez Leaving Villa Barberini, ...

Pope Leo XIV pushed back against speculation surrounding his visit to Istanbul's iconic Blue Mosque during his recent trip to Turkey, but stopped short of saying whether he prayed there. "Who said ...

Harari basketwork is carried out by the women of Hārer. Distinct forms and shapes and complicated patterns were developed throughout several centuries. The Paulitschke collection of 1884 in the ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

“Any viewer’s tongue will grow shorter trying to describe it,” marveled the inveterate traveler Ibn Battuta while visiting Jerusalem in 1326. “This is one of the most fantastic of all buildings, of ...

The new charge comes with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment upon conviction and will be a test case for New Zealand's terrorism law. New Zealand’s response to this month’s terrorist attack has ...

The square Mosque with its single great dome and four slender minarets, dominates the skyline of the former Ottoman capital of Edirne. Sinan, the most famous of Ottoman architects in the 16th century, ...