Let’s not forget that, once upon a time, Catholicism was quite active in those countries. The Church honors “three kings” as ...

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With the threat of Russia on their doorstep, five nations are bolstering their defences by turning to a tactic the world ...

Early in World War II, Finland allied with the Nazis, who built a big base in Rovaniemi, a Lapland railway hub. But by October 1944, the Nazis were losing and the Soviet Red Army was marching into ...

On a tour of southern Finland, seeing the enduring masterworks of architect Alvar Aalto.

Hungarian-born Imola Balogh, whose grandmother practised architecture in Finland in the late 1960s, recently began to experiment with a wood-based foam, an innovative biomaterial developed by ...

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Helsinki, Finland. AP Imposing limits The exercise had clear limits. AI was not involved in forgiving sins at the Helsinki service, and the Eucharist was not performed.

President Mary Ellen Wood Smoot, who served as the 13th general president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1997 to 2002, died Feb. 10, 2025, at age 91.

Stephanie St-Pierre and Gabrielle Bardall, professors at Nova Scotia’s Université Sainte-Anne, are fighting to save North America’s tallest wooden church from demolition. Standing over 180 ...