Armenia is a country with impressively poor road infrastructure. A road trip through the country is only suitable for the ...

Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88 this morning, paid a three-day visit to Armenia in 2016. The Pope described the visit ...

Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

I’m a believer. Not in a higher power, but in the power of sacred spaces to move, challenge, educate and uplift me.

Various segments of the Armenian Church condemned the actions of the Roman Catholic Church for a conference organized by ...

Compared with neighbouring Armenia and Azerbaijan ... including the magnificent monastery at Mtskheta to the north and the fascinating city of Gori – Stalin's home town – to the west.

to reach Tiger’s Nest Monastery, which appears to dangle from the cliff. See bhutan.travel Loading Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey You can’t bypass this Byzantine masterpiece unless you’re en ...

The conference, which took place on April 10 at the Pontifical Gregorian University, featured speakers from Turkey, Kazakhstan ... West Asian history," such as a display of the medieval Armenian ...

At that time Armenia was located in eastern Turkey. After it was destroyed in ... the work of St. Maron in the 4th century who founded a monastery east of Antioch. Later monks moved to the ...