The moment he arrived home to Syria from Turkey, Ahmed al-Kassem held his sister in a tight embrace, after not seeing each ...

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.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says that Turkey’s Embassy in Syria’s capital of Damascus will reopen on Saturday, for the first time since 2012 ...

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