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Thieves have returned a gold shrine believed to contain vials of the blood of Jesus Christ stolen from a church in France. The 2,000-year-old reliquary, called the "Precious Blood of Christ," is among the Catholic Church's holiest relics. Thieves stole...

The sound of Hagia Sophia was recreated recently by two scholars from California’s Stanford University by simply popping a balloon. Bissera Pentcheva, a professor of art history, has published a book on the subject titled Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and...

File photo Greece ranks fourth among 34 European countries in having the most religious citizens, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. Romanians, Armenians, and Georgians occupy the first three places on the survey. On the opposite end...

A baptism on the island of Rhodes was postponed because the godmother's wedding had been performed according to a civil ceremony rather than religious rite. Local newspaper Rhodian Democracy reports that the parents were informed that they needed to...