Religion News Service

At Nicaea, Pope Leo calls Christians to rise to unity as ancient basilica resurfaces

Before the newly resurfaced ruins of the Basilica of Neophytos, Pope Leo XIV joined with Patriarch Bartholomew of ...
National Catholic Reporter

Where Christians forged a common creed, Pope Leo calls to end 'scandal of divisions'

Seventeen centuries after the Council of Nicaea crafted the creed that defined Christianity, Pope Leo XIV returned to the ancient site with an appeal to "overcome the scandal of the divisions" that ...

How the first Bible to include a map helped spread the idea of countries with borders

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...

Did the ancient Romans really abandon people with disabilities?

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.
Messenger-Inquirer

1,700 years ago, bishops and an emperor wrote a creed. Millions still recite it in church

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight ...