The bar crawl and charity fund-raiser has been eliciting strong reactions in the city for more than 25 years. Readers shared theirs.

Yet in the U.S. and many other nations, social trust is far from ubiquitous. While a majority of U.S. adults (55%) say most people can be trusted, a sizable share (44%) say most people can’t be ...

Today, the Land of the Cedars remains a delicate patchwork of identities, hopes, and unresolved tensions. Into this complex ...

A commission chosen by the late Pope Francis to study the possibility of women becoming deacons in the Catholic Church has ...

In a city still marked by the sounds of the 2024 escalation between Hezbollah and Israel, Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon to rise ...

The Pope’s visit, his words, everything he has done here, will move things forward toward eventual justice. How, exactly, is ...

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Beirut on Sunday after a visit to Turkey that began last week. He challenged Lebanon’s political ...

An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing ...

Christmas celebrations are returning to Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank after two years of war in Gaza. As a shaky ceasefire holds, Palestinians in the city that's the traditional birthplace ...

Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler has been honored for his decades of activism and leadership, including his support for the D.C.-based Target boycott, which was inspired by his vision of having a consistent ...

Separation of poetry from prose affects revolutionary consciousness, and deliberately cleaves the imaginative from the ...