Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who had helped her husband, Chiune, rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during World War II. They were a...

Today in 1945 we travel to Hungary where Josef Mindzentsy was appointed Archbishop and leader of the Catholic Church - a position with...

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

Today in 1941, the abbot of the Sisatovac monastery in Croatia, Rafailo Momcilovic would die, he had been kidnapped by the Ustaše on 25...

Today we travel to Lyon where the French Jesuit, Henri De Lubac was ordained a priest in 1927. Earlie in his training, the French ...

Today we travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Clarence Stanley Fisher was born in 1876. He would devote his life to Near Eastern...

Today we got to 1944 Hungary where a dispatch from Angelo Roncalli to the papal nuncio in Hungary illustrated the intensity of...

Today in 1880 Cologne Cathedral was finished. It was Germany's largest cathedral and for four years it was the tallest building in the...

Today in 1942 the Carmelite Nun Edith Stein was arrested in her convent in the Netherlands by the SS and taken to Auschwitz concentration...

The Jesuit priest Benito Vines spent decades observing the skies at the Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba. He is now seen as a pioneer...

The Russian writer Alexander Solzenhitsyn was sentenced in his absence to an eight year term in a labour camp in Siberia. He would be...

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

On the 12 June 1991, the citizens of Leningrad overwhelming voted to return the name of the city to St Petersburg. It was a clear...

Karl Barth the most influential Protestant theologian of the 20th century was born on May 10th 1886. A leader of the 'Confessing Church'...

Recently many British Royal Weddings and Funerals have occurred in St Georges Chapel in Windsor, outside of London. It is also the home...

Today we go back to year 1991 and travel to Canberra in Australia, and the closing of the 7th assembly of the World Council of Churches. ...

Today in 1941 a targeting error by a gunnery officer on board a British warship some thirteen miles offshore caused an armour-piercing...

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