THE Irish language has more than two thousand years of unbroken history behind it. Apart from Greek, it has the oldest ...

Religious rhetoric has been used time and again to hide and decorate material interests With a crusade-like zeal, political and military leaders are using religious language to motivate troops, not ...

Speaking from Jordan, the former Custos of the Holy Land makes an appeal for a “great gathering for all” in the name of peace ...

Irish actor on growing up in Co Down, the film that changed everything, and her lead role in Channel 4’s A Woman of Substance ...

Palestinians are mourning after an overnight airstrike hit a beauty salon outside Hebron. The Wednesday night strike killed ...

A quiet cloister behind a wooden door near Rome’s Pantheon offers calm meditation, while its frescoes reveal a turbulent past.

The Palestinian writer-director Annemarie Jacir focuses on the 1936 farmer rebellion against the British, with the future of ...

During a session at the Copenhagen documentary festival's industry conference, the Irish filmmaker also spoke about only filming people she's really drawn for docs and why she may turn to fiction next ...

The Saint Patrick’s Day Parade crowds might have been a little lighter than usual along Fifth Avenue due to the cold ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old lead bullet in the Holy Land with a darkly sarcastic inscription in Greek.

Amira Musallam leads a movement to shield civilians from violence without weapons. But the environment surrounding that work ...

Catherine Connolly, Ireland’s left-wing president, gave a Saint Patrick’s Day message in support of foreign migrants Tuesday.