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  • Treasure hunter finds piece likely to have been part of crown of Henry VIII

    Treasure hunter finds piece likely to have been part of crown of Henry VIII

    • Feb 9, 2021

    Kevin Duckett was near a pond close to the English town of Market Harborough with his metal detector when it began to buzz like mad.

    By Claire Page
  • Ancient fabric shows how King David may have dressed

    Ancient fabric shows how King David may have dressed

    • Jan 29, 2021

    A new archeological discovery may shed new light on the way King David and King Solomon dressed 3000 years ago.

    By Charles Collins
  • Lebanese man’s decades of research helps great-uncle’s sainthood cause

    Lebanese man’s decades of research helps great-uncle’s sainthood cause

    • Jan 4, 2021

    A Lebanese Capuchin then serving in Baabdat — Father Salim Rizkallah — had been appointed vice postulator of the sainthood cause of Armenian Catholic Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan of Mardin, Turkey.

    By Doreen Abi Raad
  • Global pandemic meets 500th anniversary of 1st global voyage

    Global pandemic meets 500th anniversary of 1st global voyage

    • Dec 31, 2020

    Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation of the expedition led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. Five centuries later, the pandemic looms as a Spanish navy tall ship sails to commemorate the feat.

    By Christopher Torchia
  • Brazil’s Catholic Church yet to come to terms with slaveholding past

    Brazil’s Catholic Church yet to come to terms with slaveholding past

    • Dec 29, 2020

    In a year the Black Lives Matter movement spread across the globe, Brazilians are beginning to focus on the role the Catholic Church played in the institution of slavery in the country.

    By Eduardo Campos Lima
  • Bavaria to leave medieval anti-Jewish sculptures on churches

    Bavaria to leave medieval anti-Jewish sculptures on churches

    • Dec 9, 2020

    Authorities, churches and Jewish communities in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria have agreed that anti-Semitic statues and carvings dating back to the Middle Ages shouldn’t be removed from churches, an official said Tuesday.

    By Associated Press
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