1850–1750 BCE), faience and paint, 5 inches (12.7 cm) (image public domain via the Metropolitan Museum of Art) In northeast Sudan lies the Bayuda Desert, home to the Medieval Christian monastery ...

Organized in collaboration with New York’s Episcopal Diocese, the event aims to provide spiritual and legal resources for faith communities as they prepare for the incoming Trump administration ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it." While it is well known that Islamic textiles were present in late medieval European churches, surviving fragments are ...

Natural law recognizes the fundamental dignity of every person and demands that they be treated with compassion and justice.

As the city’s diversity expands, so too do all the ways that people worship and practice faith. PRRI figures from 2020 show that over 73% of New York City residents practice some kind of faith ...

That transition from cipher to creature tells the story of how science developed, and the ways in which art facilitated that ... field of green as in the Medieval bestiary, but not in the Amazon ...

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Stunning medieval wall paintings inside France’s Angers Cathedral remained hidden for centuries. But now, for the first time, conservators from the University of Cambridge’s Hamilton Kerr Institute ...

A set of 16th-century royal burial regalia concealed in a niche under a staircase for nearly a century has been recovered from the Vilnius Cathedral in Lithuania. The gold crowns, rings and other ...