Q: If the church’s new year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, then why is the secular New Year’s Day (Jan. 1) a holy day of obligation? A: You are correct that the church’s liturgical new year ...

Lebanese authorities have arrested a Syrian citizen suspected of sending money to fighters loyal to former Syrian President Bashar Assad in Syria.

A priest went viral for blessing the field ahead of the Pittsburgh Steelers' game against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night at Acrisure Stadium. The priest was seen tossing holy water in the end ...

Before the Pittsburgh Steelers became the AFC North division champions, a priest sprinkled the end zones with holy water. The blessing came from Father Maximilian Maxwell, prior of the Archabbey at St ...

Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its atrocities during the Syrian civil war. Pictures of missing Syrians pasted on a ...

More than a year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, images of the former dictator persist throughout Syria, not least on the country's banknotes. On December 30, the country's current president Ahmed ...

An Al Jazeera investigative programme has obtained hours of leaked audio recordings of prominent military officers in the regime of the ousted leader, Bashar al-Assad, discussing plans and efforts to ...

Mass grave site, located at old desert arms depot, is under guard by Syrian military forces Desert military installation, vacated during Assad cover-up, has been reactivated Investigation is probing ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa unveiled the country's new banknotes at a ceremony in Damascus on Monday, removing images of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad in a ...

Newly released FBI records connected to the Covenant School shooting in Nashville include writings made by shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale that shed further light on her motivations, planning and ...

Simply sign up to the Foreign exchange myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Syria will replace banknotes bearing ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s face and slash two zeros from the pound ...

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