It was called the “bloodiest border in Europe” for a reason. Thousands of people died escaping Nicolae Ceausescu’s communist regime of 1974-1989—no one knows exactly how many. People from all across Eastern Europe risked everything to flee south through Romania into Yugoslavia and freedom. This border was heavily patrolled and covered in tripwires and barbed-wire fences.

Despite being under constant siege, today’s nation of Israel is home to an ancient Hebrew culture to which Judaism, Christianity and Western civilisation owe an incalculable debt, writes David Furse-Roberts.

On Tuesday, the 4th of November, 1806, the electors of the Borough of Shrewsbury assembled in the town’s guildhall to choose their next parliamentary representatives. There were three candidates for two seats...

Western Civilisation is a product of its past. While it has been influenced by many ideas and events throughout its vast history, it has been primarily shaped by a contest of faith between human reason and divine revelation.

The First World War, “the war to end all wars,” was really just the beginning. The Second World War wouldn’t have happened without the First World War.

Winston Churchill deftly understood Adolf Hitler’s ideology and changed the outcome of WWII by taking a psychological offensive against him.

To Robert Menzies, freedom of worship and religion was a pillar of his own Liberal philosophy, as well as a fruit of his religious faith.

New post-Enlightenment ideas moved faith, ethics and culture from the ‘absolute’ into the 'relative' category—the rise of relativism.

On 15 October 1930, a large crowd gathered at the train station to wave Gladys goodbye. She clambered aboard carrying everything she owned.

For half a century, Rev Fred Nile's contribution to faith and politics was pronounced, and his legacy is worthy of appreciation.