The Northern Crusades were launched to convert the Baltic region to Christianity—but at what moral cost? This video explores the historical complexity of these brutal campaigns, questioning whether ...

More than 45,000 people packed Angel Stadium on Saturday night for the annual Harvest Crusade, an evangelistic event led by ...

The Health Department’s Christian Crusade. The religious right has infiltrated the office of Health and Human Services, and reproductive rights are the first target By Tessa Stuart.

Defending Christians. Pope Urban II and other preachers of the Crusades wanted to defend Christian society. In launching the First Crusade, Urban reportedly exhorted his listeners, "You must carry ...

The message is clear: come for the salvation, stay for the culture war. Behind the smoke machines and soft-rock worship sets ...

Of course, a Christian crusade in response to jihad would be just fine with many Saudis and Gulf Arabs. They don’t care about the suffering of individual Muslims — only about Islam.

By their own lights, the Crusades were remarkably successful. In a series of military struggles that had the church’s blessing, armed expeditions extended and reinforced the influence of Latin ...

He seems to be arguing that it’s nonsense to speak of Islam as a quietistic religion of peace that was set upon by bigoted Christians in the Crusades. And in that, he is correct. Islam spread by ...

The history of Western involvement in the Middle East began with the Crusades some 900 years ago. NPR's Mike Shuster begins a special six-part series on the troubled history.

(exciting orchestral music) - [Narrator] Although, Christians mounted several more Crusades, Jerusalem would remain in Muslim hands for the next 730 years. In 1917, the British captured the city ...