After more than a decade as a refugee in Turkey, Ahmed al-Kassem decided to bring his family back home to Syria only days ...

The 9th and Columbia Street Church of Christ will celebrate its annual community Christmas meal on Dec. 25. It will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Anyone who needs a meal or just wants some company ...

The big picture: The push for Sister Blandina Segale's sainthood comes as President-elect Trump vows mass deportation and ...

The gist of it is this: In 1087 two Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first to steal the bones of St. Nicholas—known to us as Santa Claus—from a basilica in what is now southern Turkey.

While Malagasy people observe some of the same holidays as people in the U.S., the celebrations often feel much different.

Exuberant Syrians observed the first Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, gathering in the capital's ...

DAMASCUS — Exuberant Syrians observed the first Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar ... Blinken arrived in ...

Eight-year-old Rayan Assani knows next to nothing about Syria, but in a few minutes, the little girl with long black hair and ...

A Turkish government proposal to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has put Kurdish rights back in the ...

A new report by International Christian Concern shows anti-Christian hate crimes doubling in Turkey since 2021. While ...

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, various colonies observed days of thanksgiving as religious events, typically marked by prayer and fasting ... dishes like roast turkey and pumpkin pie ...

Turkey is on the menu in most homes that celebrate ... President Abraham Lincoln believed Thanksgiving should be a day of praying for peace and caring for war victims. Lincoln's Thanksgiving ...