Readers of the Bible are thus invited to engage in a double act of moral imagination. First, they must imagine that they ...

How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum.

As the crescent of Ramadan 1447 rises over the Nile Valley, we find ourselves once again at the threshold of the most generous guest the Islamic calendar sends us each year.

For most of dem, di reason wey dem dey give na for fasting na for two reasons: spiritual and religious reasons, and family and social ones.

Cambridge University Professor Josephine Quinn on why the 'West' was a hard-won idea, and why the idea of great civilizations of the world is so attractive and so harmful to the practice of history ...

LET me begin this column with a statement sent to me and The Manila Times over the weekend by Mounir Anastas, ambassador of ...

The start of the month traditionally depends on the sighting of the crescent moon. This year, the first day of Ramadan is expected to be on or around Feb. 18 or 19.

Several churches in the Jacksonville area are hosting traditional Friday Fish Fry events during the Lenten season. See ...

As Ramadan and Lent begin on the same day this year, religious experts advise Muslims and Christians to learn more about each ...

This likeness of a Greek woman, once affixed to her wrapped corpse, is a startlingly lifelike work of art and a testament to the cross-cultural currents of the ancient world.

Lent begins today, Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18. Here's when it ends, when Easter will fall in 2026 and why it overlaps with Passover.

As the nation’s political divisiveness limps along in a perpetually severed state, pastors of different beliefs seem to have found a speck of commonality. It’s not in doctrine or religiosity but in ...