The gospel lectionary reading for the First Sunday of Epiphany/the Baptism of Christ in this Year C is Luke 3.15–17, 21–22. We have recently been exploring Luke 3 during Advent, having read the first ...

A new restoration of a church in Mexico has revealed a host of resplendent 16th-century religious paintings that once spanned ...

Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

At the end of a tenure marked by war and division, the outgoing secretary of state defends his legacy on Gaza and Ukraine and ...

As both a Catholic convert and ethnic Jew, Art Blumberg reflects on complicated spiritual realities on pilgrimage to the Western Wall.

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered a 1,700-year-old oil lamp decorated with rare Jewish artwork, including a unique ...

The final resting place of the cup of Christ is the ‘holy grail’ of religious tourism. But hundreds of sites claiming to be ...

The Rev. Bernice King, the daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., praised Carter as a “man of peace ...

Anti-Israel bias at BBC News runs so deep that most people don’t see more than the tip of the iceberg. And while the Jews ...

The entry of the jubilee cross into the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on Dec. 29 marked the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in the Holy Land.

He speculated that the cross may have arrived with a pilgrim from Europe and fallen during his or her journey in the Land of Israel, or might have been purchased in Jerusalem. “This exciting find in ...

The parents of Jesus went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. And when the feast was ended, as they were returning ...