Working with Visual Commentary on Scripture, London’s National Gallery and Berlin’s Bode Museum and Gemäldegalerie are uniting art and theology

How the Pope washed the feet of 13 priests during Holy Week is at the heart of a new exhibition outside Turin

US university's decision to dismiss employee for displaying the 14th- and 16th-century works has been described as an "egregious violation" of academic freedom

Gregor Weber's biography "Johannes Vermeer: Faith, Light and Reflection" also supports the controversial view that Vermeer used a camera obscura

Faith leaders and community groups campaigned to save Glasgow's St Mungo Museum of Religious Art and Life from the risk of permanent closure

Blasphemy laws in Italy are strict and can result in fines

In a new series "Dispatches from Afghanistan", we speak to artists about their experiences since the rise of the Taliban. Here, Mansoor laments the world’s silence over Afghanistan's fate

In a new series "Dispatches from Afghanistan", we speak to artists about their experiences since the rise of the Taliban. Here, contemporary artist and curator Mina recounts the horrors of her failed escape attempt

Paramilitary forces deployed after local police fail to protect the religious shrine

An exhibition in Split shows that being 1,600 years old does not take you out of politics

The near-life-size contemporary work will join 300 historic depictions of saints and kings

After decades of neglect, a fundraising drive could restore Prinkipo Orphanage as an environmental research centre

A planned mosque and cultural centre will celebrate the syncretic culture of Hinduism and Islam in the northern city of Ayodhya

Decision that Kariye Museum must become a Muslim house of worship again could imperil its Byzantine art and have repercussions for other early Christian monuments

Photographer was given privileged access to document scenes and to make portraits among the people of this conservative group

Even when the codex became ubiquitous, scrolls held a special place for the written word

Bard Graduate Center's 25th anniversary exhibition considers devotional offerings across religions

Finnish artist Jani Leinonen has asked museum to remove the work—with no response

The Battel Hall retable, which survived the fury of 16th-century iconoclasts, bears later scars of graffiti and "witchmarks" against evil spirits

More than 30 conservators will treat paintings and sculptures, seven years after French culture ministry halted reckless cleaning of two panels

State-of-the-art conservation project that took 21 years brings masterpiece of Baroque architecture back to its former glory

Accademia Carrara’s curator Giovanni Valagussa explains how he put “two and two” together

This fascinating survey offers both detailed commentary and lavish illustrations

While its terminology is unsteady, the scholarship and production values of this sequel volume are exceptional

Illuminating historical overviews and a mass of documentary research covers an under-studied subject

Rubbish collectors found the bone fragment of Clement I in London

Sacred object taken by British troops in the 19th century is concealed inside an altar

Leader of powerful Hindu organisation has threatened nationwide protests if long-awaited ruling "goes against Hindus' faith"

The Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, on what Catholics can take away from the Met’s Heavenly Bodies exhibition