Leaked documents claim to present results of a worldwide consultation of bishops on restricting pre-Vatican II Latin Mass ...

A Vatican spokesman has played down the significance of recently leaked Vatican documents that appear to cast doubt on Pope ...

Prepare to dive deep into the fascinating history of the letters G, J, U, W, and Y. Ever wondered why these seemingly ordinary letters have such a peculiar backstory? This exploration uncovers the ...

The French then spread the Latin alphabet while training the civil servants who helped them govern Indochina, explained Khanh-Minh Bui, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley ...

HANOI -- At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a ...

When the Avignon-born Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes published the first Portuguese-Vietnamese-Latin dictionary under his own name in 1651, it was primarily intended for missionaries wishing to spread ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a legacy of French colonial rule.

A Google Translate screenshot correctly shows that the name of the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, when written as “A stra ze neca,” means “a road to death” in Latin. We reached out to ...

The letters of Coelbren look similar to Norse runes but are also very similar to ancient Greek letters. They are particularly similar to the Archaic Greek alphabet. This existed between the ninth ...

But while Q and Z are not commonly used letters in the alphabet, it was not too difficult to find our choices if you really think about it. One band even shares a name with the letter they are ...