The Falcons totalled 170 for six thanks to a sixth-wicket stand of 76 in 52 balls from Martin Andersson (70 not out, 46 balls ...

MATCH CENTRE/SCORECARD Somerset began the quest to regain the Vitality Blast crown with a comprehensive win over Surrey at ...

The last non-European pontiff before him was Pope Gregory III, who reigned from 731 to 741 and was born in what is now Syria. With a span of more than 1,270 years between them, Pope Francis’s ...

Somerset continued to hold sway over Surrey, beating their arch rivals by five wickets in an entertaining Vitality Blast ...

For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

Somerset continued to hold sway over Surrey, beating their arch rivals by five wickets in an entertaining Vitality Blast curtain-raiser at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton, writes Andrew ...

This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

This form of slavery, known as racial slavery, began in large-scale during the 15th century and was formally ... the clergy than the laity. In 1839, Pope Gregory XVI issued a Bull, entitled ...

Come, O Holy Spirit! Enlighten my understanding in order that I may know your commands; strengthen my heart against the snares of the enemy; enkindle my will. I have heard your voice, and I do not ...

The Persians traced their lineages back to the Achaemenid conquerors in the sixth century B.C. The Greeks descended from the community around Alexander the Great and his heirs, the Seleucid kings.

He had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from ...

To restore order, Caesar looked to Egypt’s 365-day year, which as early as the third-century B.C. had established ... celebrate Christmas in January.) Pope Gregory XIII found the situation ...