A strategic location can be more curse than blessing. Just ask the Maltese, whose tiny island nation lies 50 miles below Sicily. Early in World War II, when Malta was a British possession, Germany and ...

Sailing into the stony harbor of the island of Malta, surrounded by ramparts and turrets, you realize that this strategic and much fought-over rock midway between Sicily and Africa has had a long and ...

Malta is surely one of the best places to visit during the Easter celebrations of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. It is a place where you can be a participant and not just a spectator.

His Holiness Pope Francis declared 2025 a year of Jubilee, from December 24, 2024, to January 6, 2026. Jubilee years happen every 25 years. The theme of the 2025 Jubilee year is “Pilgrims of Hope.” ...

From this spot, perched high above Valletta’s Grand Harbour, the world is all light and limestone, golden-hued, hot, humid and surrounded by the sparkling – and oh-so-inviting – cerulean Mediterranean ...

The Maltese Islands sit at the geographic, and historically, strategic center, of the Mediterranean. That position has meant that the islands have invariably been incorporated into successive ...

One U.K. journalist recounts his visit to the island-nation with ties to the apostle, avoiding storms, shipwrecks and poisonous snakes.

For centuries Malta was the center of the world. Well, the European world anyway. At roughly the geographical center of the Mediterranean, and perhaps even more importantly, in the narrow space ...

Malta offers positively thunderous sounds, immense food, and immersive history, writes Esther McCarthy ...