"Kingdom of Heaven," the current movie about the medieval Crusades, concludes with the Muslim commander Saladin nobly promising Christian defenders safe passage home to Europe in 1187 when they agreed ...

A missionary veteran of Asia proposes one way to defuse Muslim anger about the Crusades. Months before the movie Kingdom of Heaven was to be released, critics lined up to lament how this big-budget ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

Prologue: Damascus Crossroads -- The abode of Islam -- The frightened sea -- Prey of the sword -- Against the enemies of God -- Testing our might -- The fallen tent -- From every deep valley -- Wolves ...

(RNS) — An 800-year-old puzzle about a set of 13th-century floor tiles has added to historians’ thinking about the relationship of Europeans and Arabs at the time of the Crusades. Amanda Luyster, ...

Field reporters in this history-as-news program trace the events of the 12th c. Crusades. In this episode, viewers see the history-as-news treatment of the 12th century Crusades. Many feel the ...

The Crusades, when Christians tried for two centuries to oust Muslims from the Holy Land, left more than a million dead, with territory lost and gained and lost again — all in the name of Jesus. These ...

Relating to the military expeditions undertaken primarily by the Church and European Christians through the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to reclaim the Holy Land, the Crusades mark a chapter in ...