This church was "discovered" by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century. After attempts to "latinize" the rite, many broke away to form their own rite under the control of the Syrian Patriarch.

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

Fanny Barlow shared a video of the abandoned church and has gained more than 300,000 views since she first shared it. In the viral clip, she shows viewers the outside of the church before heading ...

Until the town was demolished in 2016, there were still remnants of the lives the former residents left behind, including an abandoned school bus. But it was the town’s Presbyterian church that seemed ...

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Parents carried their own children on their shoulders to the church and threw them in the common pit. 'From these pits such an appalling stench was given off that scarcely anyone dared even walk ...

“We tried burning the girls dorm. That didn't work. And then that shop, we just burned it down this morning. And then that church, we're burning that this morning too,” Nicori said. On March 3, the ...

A teenage boy who lived for years in squalor after his mom abandoned him and his two little sisters left the house only twice: once to check the mail, the other to feel the grass. "To hear that he ...

An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey has become a treasure house of artefacts. This is also the coronation church where some of the most significant people in ...

It was deemed too hard a feat to rebuild the sacred building but, luckily, the soaring tower and some of the walls survived. Come the 1960s, the abandoned church was transformed into a bench-dotted ...