In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

The US Christian Commission provided stationery and postage during the Civil War as part of its welfare and spiritual support for members of the Union military.

A deal freed 10 Americans and permanent residents detained in Venezuela for more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who were ...

A new report follows the money as it moves from reactionary advocacy groups and think tanks to groups waging war on women’s ...

Armenia’s government is facing off against its ancient church as the former tries to sign a peace deal with the country’s ...

Transparency International and several MEPs criticized on Tuesday the decision by the EU Commission to remove the UAE from ...

Allies of the new Syrian government and other non-state actors have continued violence and discrimination against Christians ...

If the church becomes tainted with blatant partisan politics, the church will look like the world with polarizing division,” ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and more than 100 Spanish priests killed during the Spanish ...

Robert La Follette saw politics as a never-ending struggle for democracy and fairness and preached perseverance.

In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about fading support for Ukraine, the European Parliament backing a money laundering ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...