Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris celebrates Easter mass for the first time since the April 2019 fire which nearly destroyed the ...

After Jesus died, early Christians were hesitant to use the cross as a symbol. Since it was linked to criminals, it was something the Church did not embrace immediately. Instead, they used other signs ...

The tradition of only eating fish on Good Friday comes from a Catholic rule of not consuming the meat of warm-blooded animals on Fridays. When this rule was decreed by the Catholic Church, many opted ...

The sprawling complex contains thousands of hardened gangsters and stands as a symbol of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele's harsh crackdown on gang violence since it opened in 2023. Bukele ...

Funerary stele inscribed with “ΙΧΘΥϹ ΖΩΝΤΩΝ” (“fish of the living”), an early Christian symbol. National Roman Museum. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. The humble fish, or ...