The oldest Black church in California’s East Bay was devastated by a massive fire Sunday night that the church’s pastor said gutted its interior structure. Video showed heavy smoke and flames ...

The Middle East is the birthplace of the three major Abrahamic religions and is still home to large Christian communities. Overall, Christians make up around 10 to 15 percent of the Arab world and ...

Earth’s oldest rocks may be at least 4.16 billion years old By Carolyn Gramling June 26, 2025. Animals ... The oldest known ritual chamber in the Middle East has been found.

Let’s take a look at the Middle East’s oldest countries and how they’re still influencing the world today. You can’t talk old without talking about Egypt, which goes back to 3000 BCE.

EAST VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) -- The final piece of the building that stood for the oldest worshipping community in New York City started to be demolished Monday. Middle Church in the East ...

Yet the church’s expansion elsewhere in Africa owed much to European demand for African resources, including slaves. Some African Catholics have been uneasy about the Church’s colonial origins.

Israeli officials say they have discovered what may be the oldest Christian Church in the Holy Land - on the site of a maximum security prison. Israel's Antiquities Authority said the church at the ...

Pervasive persecution, at times amounting to genocide, has seen millions of Christians in the Middle East killed, kidnapped, uprooted, imprisoned and discriminated against. It has taken a toll on the ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world's oldest alphabet, believed to have existed in the Middle East hundreds of years earlier than other ancient scripts. The early ...

A Palestinian 14-year-old from New Jersey was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers Sunday in the West Bank, officials said. Omar Mohammad Rabea, a former Saddle Brook resident, was among three ...

Englewood's First Presbyterian Church, established in 1860, has a singular place in North Jersey history. It's the oldest church in the city and the first Presbyterian congregation to open its ...