Inquisitional methods are being employed by the authorities in Bessarabia against the peaceful and economically ruined Jewish population of the province, the Yiddish daily “Unzer Zeit” complains in an ...

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VATICAN CITY – Torture, burning at the stake and other punishment for the faithful condemned as witches or heretics by church tribunals during the Inquisition was less widespread than commonly ...

Comparing Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay to the torture rooms of the Spanish Inquisition is almost always a gesture of condemnation. The implication is not subtle: the enhanced interrogation (to adopt ...

Archaeologists undertaking routine excavations in Évora, Portugal, in advance of construction did not expect to find the remains of a dozen victims of the Inquisition. But both the bodies and the ...

Torture, burning at the stake and other punishment for the faithful condemned as witches or heretics by church tribunals during the Inquisition was not as widespread as commonly believed, the Vatican ...