Today in 1950, Mother Teresa founded the religious order the Missionaries of Charity. Today she received permission from the Holy See to...

Today we look at the figure of John Alexander Dowie suffered from a stroke in Chicago on Oct 3rd. Dowie was a Scottish / Australian...

Today in 2000 we travel to Hyderabad, India where a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to...

Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...

Today we look at the life and thought of Mircea Eliade a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at...

For more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the Far...

A Jesuit priest from India and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality, integrating ancient eastern...

Today we remember how in 1493 Pope Alexander VI, in an age of exploration divided the 'New World' between Spain and Portugal. Giving the...

Today we look at the remarkable story of William Booths life, how he emerged from a poor family - in the harsh landscape of a rabidly...

Today in 1946 in Madras, India controversial Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias was born. He inspired a generation of apologists and...

On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1812 and travel to West Bengal in India. Today a fire broke out in missionary...

Today we and travel to Singapore and the 1886 and remember the founding of the first Anglo-Chinese school by Bishop William Fitzjames...

Today in 1867 the Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam left Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria, to begin his second...

Today in 1950 the Constitution of India came into force, forming a republic. An ancient, massive and deeply religious country with 80%...