On the last Thursday in November, I took a train from The Hague, where I am currently living, to Leiden, a nearby city. I was going to participate in an interfaith Thanksgiving service for Americans ...

At the Seneca Anticafé, a bookshop and shared workspace in the Romanian capital Bucharest, there are more Ukrainian books on the shelves these days. There are also Romanian language courses on offer ...

Orlandoans were planning the biggest Christmas celebration in years, the city’s Evening Star newspaper reported on Christmas Eve 1945. World War II had ended months earlier, but the troops were still ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 13 (UNHCR) - Selliah Arumugam walked through the gates at the bustling Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo, his wife and four children in tow. With a big smile on ...

At the very beginning of this week’s portion, Sarah dies. In search of a burial place for her, Abraham spoke with the Hittites, among them Ephron the Hittite, who owned the Cave of Machpelah. When ...

“There is something about the holidays,” says Chapel Hill minister Bob Dunham, “that stirs memories and longing for home. “Even if they are better in memory than they were in reality.” He explained ...

In a show that ranges from Northern California to Laos, the Hmong American artist Pao Houa Her explores landscape, making a living and a peculiar kind of paradise. By Alex V. Cipolle This article is ...

LONDON -- During the nearly 25 years he has spent in exile, Iraqi poet Saadi Yousef often writes about his beloved Basra and his longing to return to the southern Iraqi city. Like millions of other ...

Cathleen Clarke, Sunday Morning, 2024; Oil and acrylic on canvas , 24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm.). Credit Nik Massey, Courtesy the artist and Night Gallery, Los Angeles Cathleen Clarke’s paintings, with ...