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

Today Christians took control of the government after enduring years of persecution which had triggered a rebellion. The victory was in...

Today in 1884 we remember how Dr. Horace Newton Allen arrived in Chemulpo, Korea, praying for an opportunity to evangelize Korea, where...

Its 1868 and we are in Jordan where late in the afternoon during a coffee break, the sheikh of the Banî Hamîdi tribe informed the German...

Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....

Today in 1970, a solemn liturgy at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral on Kodiak Island, Alaska, glorified St. Herman, as the...

Today we travel to Labrador in Canada where Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell arrived on the remote Canadian Atlantic coast to work with colonists...

Today at dawn the Santa María and its companion boats commenced the historic voyage which will bring Europeans to America. The...

Ying Lianzhi, a Catholic Manchu aristocrat, founded a newspaper, today, in 1902 in order to, "help China become a modern and democratic...

We remember an extraordinary French woman Anne-Marie Javouhey, often known as Nanette. who died today at the age of 72. One of her last...

Today we remember how the Scottish Missionary Eric Liddell won the Olympic 400-meter race in Paris after he had rejected an opportunity...

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...

American missionary Horace Tracy Pitkin was beheaded when a mob burst into his Mission compound as part of the Boxer Uprising. This was...

Today we travel to Florence in Italy where the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning died. Married to another poet – Robert Browning,...

Today in 1941 we travel to Russia where the American Jesuit Walter J. Ciszek was arrested under suspicion of being a spy for the Vatican...

Today we remember the beatification of Kateri Takakwitha, a Mohawk woman. Born in 1656 in what is now New York state, she belonged to...

Today we go back to year 1795 and travel to Baltimore where, a young William Colgate arrived in the US and settled in Harford County,...

Today in Dublin in 1826, a teenager with a big heart an a desire to do something important called Thomas Bernardo experienced an...

it’s the 25th of May and on this day in Christian History we go back to year 1995 and travel to Rome where Ut Unum Sint, the first...

We remember the historical expedition of missionary Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer to explore the...