By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

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Pope Francis brought attention to the Catholic Church in impoverished areas around the globe that are often ignored.

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Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

Unlike increasingly secular Europe, religion in the Middle East is vibrant and plays a central role in both domestic and international affairs. The secular Western man who seeks to impose his ...

When the cardinal electors made him Pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio later said, they gave Rome a bishop from the very ends of the Earth. They chose him because he spoke of a place even further away ...

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