The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidd… Read More

The relics of three of Korea’s oldest Catholic martyrs have been identified with DNA testing, the Diocese of Jeonju announced on Wednesday. The relics of Blessed Paul Yun Ji-chung a… Read More

Trouble is brewing in the backyard of Muslim-majority states competing for religious soft power and leadership of the Muslim world in what amounts to a battle for the soul of Islam. Shifting… Read More

This List Contains A-Z Alphabetic Names Of Notable Converts From Islam To Christianity Annhita Parsan, who fled Iran for he faith, has converted hundreds of Muslims in Europe to Christian… Read More

By start of the 1900’s, China had lost a number of humiliating wars with Japan, Russia and other European powers.  It fought to resist foreign armies, but lacked a modern military… Read More

Imagine having to guard the secret of your family under the threat of mortal danger This historical novel is a story of love, jealousy, intrigue, mortal terror – of family secrets, co… Read More

Compared with other Characters Literary Journalists have spent lots of timeresearching different characters in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, andhave focused primarily on Willy L… Read More

This year marks a century since the October Revolution finally brought the reign of Russia’s Czars (the Romanovs) to an end, and saw the birth of communism, which would lead to the est… Read More

Early Christians sometimes faced persecution and even death for their beliefs. Many were tortured first; some were not. Of Jesus’s 11 disciples (not counting Judas) Peter, Simon the Ze… Read More

Historically, the worship of Shivalingam has been a very popular religious practice in Kashmir. The same stands corroborated by Kalhan Pandit who in his monumental work, Rajtarangini, makes… Read More

Muhammad’s Dead Poets SocietyThe assassinations of satirical poets in early IslamJames M. ArlandsonFrom the mainstream press, scholars, and Muslim spokespersons who have access to the… Read More