Doves have a long connection with the winter holiday season. Along with the Magi that brought gifts to the Holy Family at the first Nativity scene, there were shepherds who brought gifts of fruit, ...

Earlier this week, while stopping at a country store in Monroe County to buy some snacks, I ran into an old acquaintance decked out in well-worn, camouflage hunting clothes. “Going deer hunting?” I ...

The Donald J. Trump U.S. Institute of Peace is testimony to the bewildering level of hypocrisy that the president and his ...

Dr. Hiroya Sugano spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about a ceremony with an improbable artifact that honors U.S. airmen and Japanese citizens who died during World War II.

Shepard Faireywas a thriving underground artist when his iconic Hope image of President Barack Obama catapulted him into the national spotlight last year. His first solo exhibit, at Boston's Institute ...

In 1945, an estimated 340,000 people died when the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. After those attacks, other countries around the world began ...

As I gaze at the bird feeders outside my living room window in Decatur, three mourning doves swoop in. Two of them land beneath the feeders and start pecking at seeds that have spilled onto the ground ...

In 2016, the Colombian government and the guerrilla group FARC-EP ended their five decade-long war. As part of the peace agreement, FARC-EP’s weapons had to be collected, a process known as ...

In 2014, Pope Francis oversaw the release of two doves from the papal studio window and they were immediately attacked by a crow and a seagull. The Vatican no longer engages in the releasing of doves ...

Peace has many spiritual meanings stemming from religious and historical beliefs. Peace means to be free from war and civil unrest. In today’s society, peace is referred to as the absence of internal ...

In downtown Batavia, Illinois, a simple message, 12 feet high, is etched in permanent, illuminated steel against the sky: “PEACE ON EARTH.” Reflecting in the waters of the Fox River, the display is a ...

A homeowners’ association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a ...