While informing the audience, the 24/7 news coverage tends to create a smokescreen that overshadows the picture of society that needs to be seen. The headlines will tell you a story of rigid lines, ...

Hundreds of mourners have gathered outside a mosque in Homs, Syria, after a bombing killed eight people and wounded 18.

Pope Leo XIV looks up at the ceiling of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, more commonly called the Blue Mosque, in Istanbul during a visit Nov. 29, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez Leaving Villa Barberini, ...

Christian forces captured the Umayyad capital in 1236, but left its glorious house of worship largely untouched when converting it to a cathedral. Majesty of two faithsThe artistic styles of Islam and ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s iconic Blue Mosque on Saturday but didn’t stop to pray, as he focused more on bolstering ties with Orthodox patriarchs and promoting courageous steps ...

Pope Leo's visit to the 17th-century Ottoman-era mosque marked part of his first overseas visit as head of the Catholic Church. He will travel to Lebanon on Sunday. After the mosque visit, Leo held a ...

Pope Leo XIV started his third day in Turkey on Saturday with a visit to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul. The visit was a gesture of respect toward the Islamic world, fraternity with Muslims, and ...

Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s famed Blue Mosque on the third day of his trip to Turkiye, his first known visit as leader of the Catholic Church to a Muslim place of worship. The first US pope ...

Breaking from tradition, Pope Leo XIV refrained from praying at Istanbul's iconic mosque, seemingly to the surprise of the Vatican.The visit, which will also take him ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey (RNS) – Pope Leo’s quiet stop at Istanbul’s Blue Mosque underscored the fragile, necessary work of Muslim-Christian dialogue in Turkey, observers said. ISTANBUL, Turkey (RNS) — Pope ...

Professor of Islam and Catholic Muslim Relations, Australian Catholic University From 1860 to 1930, an estimated 3,000 people came to Australia from Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Punjab, Sindh and the ...

Israeli settlers torched a mosque and sprayed it with graffiti in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to Palestinian authorities, the latest in a surge of increasingly brazen settler attacks ...