Some presidents did not use a Bible to take the oath of office, including Theodore Roosevelt, who did not use anything when ...

Jubilee 2025 officially commenced on Christmas Eve when Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica saying, “This Christmas, at the beginning of the Jubilee Year, I invite ...

The president-elect eschewed the star-spangled “Trump Bible” in favor of volumes with personal and national history.

The Jews divided their sacred books into sections. The chapter division, as found in the Bible today, dates from the thirteenth century and is the work of Stephen Langton, professor at the ...

The books of the Bible were very likely written in the cursive style of writing. The cursive (or "running hand") style joins the letters of a word together as when we write today. In addition ...

Mary Magdalen in Meditation (c.1620s pictured above), by the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, sold for £1,400,000 at ...

Pope Francis has officially opened the Jubilee of Hope, which will see millions of pilgrims and tourist visiting the capital ...

President-elect Donald Trump will use two Bibles to culminate the 60th Presidential Inauguration. He is not the first to do so, nor to use the historical Bible he chose.

In today’s fast-paced, tech-driven world, many of us rely on digital devices for nearly every aspect of life, including our ...

That means religious texts, self-help guides, political tools, and other reference texts are out—the Bible and Mao Tse Tung's Little Red Book would both be in the Top 25. And we're leaving out ...