According to Church statistics, there are around 75,000 Catholics in Cambodia. Further reading: Jesuit center gives new future to Cambodia's disabled Gaspar da Cruz, a Portuguese friar of the ...

Manu Pillai’s latest book, Gods, Guns and Missionaries traces the making of the modern Hindu identity under the influence of colonialism. In this interview, he speaks about the Hindu-Christian ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

Following up on a tip by a 17th century Jesuit monk, researchers discover an Inca tunnel network under Cusco. (photo credit: OJUP. Via Shutterstock) Archaeologists in Peru find a hidden Inca ...

As in the new book “New Prize for These Eyes” by Juan Williams, there are some who’ve gone before you but your effort is what matters now. History disagrees on the exact catalyst for the civil rights ...

Roughly 300 years later, Beijing had become a crowded, windswept city; the Jesuit missionary ... for his newly translated book “Ancient Beijing and Western Civilization,” which chronicles the ...

an allegory of the missionary work of the Jesuit order. The real fascination of the painting is the optical illusion Pozzo created, which is probably also why it is gaining fans as an Instagram ...

In Goa, Portuguese missionaries belonging to various congregations including Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, and Augustinians have been active since at least the 15th century, with some earlier ...

CHICAGO, Jan. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — In his new book 60 Seconds for Jesus ... In 2016, Pope Francis appointed Father Jim to the Missionaries of Mercy, a group of priests specially selected to be what ...

For her book, Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation ... and legacy of the creation of a set of forged historical texts that a Spanish Jesuit named Jerónimo Román de la Higuera ...