The most joyful thing is to get together and break the fast,” said Mashhor Alshrieef, a congregant at the Islamic Center of ...

With its rich religious heritage and ancient history, Egypt has immense potential to become a leading destination for ...

A unique opportunity to test ancient Egyptian perfumes is underway in an exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir ...

This view is shared by most adherents in nearly all religious traditions, including 82% of Jews, 79% of Catholics, 57% of evangelical Protestants, and 56% of Muslims. (From the US Religious Landscape ...

In the West, he is most often depicted as the antagonist – if a noble and revered one – to the crusader king, Richard the ...

Advanced Arab civilizations had emerged long before Islam ... Zenobia reigned over the Levant, Egypt, and eastern Anatolia, relying in part on the region’s Christian communities.

Byzantine influence was also evident in religion, as the Makurians abandoned paganism to adopt Christianity ... that also served as a buffer against the spread of Islam, which had taken hold of Egypt.

The reality of our everyday life - from the moment we wake up to the simple, familiar rituals and movements that shape us - ...

The head of the Druze community in Israel on Thursday hailed plans for the first visit by a Druze religious delegation from ...

In witnessing the persecution and suffering of the Middle East’s Christian communities, Israel is willing to posture itself ...

The Two-State Solution and elevating Arafat from a terrorist to a politician was an invention of the naïve Israeli left, not a Palestinian idea. But Arafat stayed a terrorist, wanted all of it, and ...

In Christian rites, incense symbolically marked the celestial world and carried prayers to God. Later, in Islamic Egypt, the role of incense was primarily to perfume mosques and places of prayer.