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 ...
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 ...
Stories about Israel at war, the United States presidential election, and rising antisemitism post-Oct. 7 captured readers' ...
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 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 ...
Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some ...
Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this ...