Now aged 55, he was tired of spending his days rifling through papers of state and worrying about Protestant upstarts ... as he pried the Habsburg Netherlands out of the Holy Roman Empire – the very ...

Santiago de Compostela is one of the major centres of Christianity in the world — but the city’s sense of spirituality goes ...

Tucked away in the South of France, this quiet town holds a Roman treasure that rivals anything in Italy. Orange was once a ...

A hodgepodge of East and West, Mithridates’ Pontic Empire emerges as a compelling possibility of what Alexander's empire could've been.

Newly installed Pope Leo XIV is entitled to a massive monthly stipend that’s estimated at $33,000 – in addition to other ...

Starting in 2023, a restoration team worked to reconstruct the traces of what the site might have looked like in the past.

At its heart, Pride is both a party and a protest. Here's a look at the event's roots and this year's events and themes.

As pope, Leo serves as leader of both the Holy See, the governing body of the Catholic Church, and Vatican City, an independent state ... recognized as the world's smallest nation.

After Christianity was legalised in the Roman Empire in 313 AD ... The pope is the ruler of both the Vatican city state and the Holy See, the supreme body of government of the Catholic Church.

The state's government is the Holy See, which is a sovereign juridical entity under international law. The Church itself is governed by the Roman Curia, which is made up of the Secretariat of ...

The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest ... state -- one third of which are gardens. The state's government is the Holy See, which is a sovereign juridical entity under ...