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The governor of Bavaria, in southern Germany, has ordered that crosses be displayed at the entrances to government buildings across his state. Markus Söder has presented the move not as merely a ...

Cristina Maza is an award-winning journalist who has reported from countries such as Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Lithuania, Serbia, and Turkey. She previously worked as a reporter for the Phnom Penh ...

A giant Christian cross is set to go up in downtown Chicago just in time for the Easter holiday. Chicago’s Daley Plaza will once again become a focal point for spiritual reflection as a 19-foot wooden ...

At issue in the case itself is a 40-foot concrete Latin cross that stands in the traffic island of a Maryland highway between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. Community leaders in Bladensburg, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. government cannot trade a parcel of land to private hands to allow a Christian cross to remain in the middle of a vast federal preserve, a U.S. appeals court ruled ...

Sometime in the 8th century C.E., the Christian community that had been living for hundreds of years on Sir Bani Yas, an island in the Arabian Gulf, packed up and walked away. At a time when relations ...

A Christian cross believed to be up to 1,200 years old and weighing more than three tons has been discovered in Skardu in northern Pakistan. A three-member expedition team from the University of ...

HENDERSON, Texas (KLTV) - At 90 years old, an East Texan is still exploring his passion for creating things with wood but he may have found his calling with one creation in particular. Fred Meissner ...

Ceramic vessels originating in the Islamic world once adorned the facades of churches and other Christian monuments, while Christian symbols such as the cross embellished columns, slabs, and other ...