The Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Arabia, which serves the more than 2 million Catholics in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen, last week celebrated the 50th anniversary of its cathedral ...

Pope Francis on Sunday accepted the resignation of Bishop Paul Hinder, apostolic vicar of Southern Arabia. Hinder, who is originally from Switzerland, turned 80 years old last month, after leading the ...

Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in the Vicariate of Southern Arabia is a "Church of migrants", where the common experience of being migrant is to feel that there is always "something missing or ...

Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee in honor of Saint Aretha and his Companions, Martyrs of Arabia, was also a precious opportunity to rediscover the long history of Christianity in Arabia, a ...

The last Ice Age made much of the globe uninhabitable, but there were oases -- or refugia -- where people 20,000 years ago were able to cluster and survive. Researchers who specialize in the analysis ...

“Being a minority, living in a Muslim country, compels us to seek the essential even in proclaiming the love of Christ.” Monsignor Paolo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, led a ...

(CN) — By analyzing weapons roughly 8,000 years old from southern Arabia, archaeologists have discovered that toolmaking was not only done out of necessity, but also was a means to exhibit artistic ...

IN 1966–67 a survey for electrophoretically abnormal haemoglobin variants was carried out in southern Arabia. Samples of venous blood were collected from 2,130 Arabs and examined for sickling and ...

Sheikh Shakhbut, ruler of Abu Dhabi, granted 11 acres of land on the Corniche, a beachside road in the city, to the Catholic Church as a sign of his patronage to the many Catholics who were committed ...