An Internet rumor that Martin Luther King Jr. paid the hospital bill when actress Julia Roberts was born is true. Sydney Page of The Washington Post writes that social media “facts” are often questionable or …
The Hebrew University, in collaboration with Tel Aviv University, conducted a study that employed a new form of technology to correctly date several battles mentioned in the Bible. The study included 20 researchers from various …
The first winner of the National Church Awards in the United Kingdom went to a Northern Irish church. St Macartan’s, located in the village of Augher in Northern Ireland’s Country Tyrone, took the top prize. …
The man who made his name as “God’s Smuggler” for his work to move Bibles across closed borders has died. Often referred to as Brother Andrew, Anne van der Bijl, 94, died Sept. 27. Van …
Archaeologists in Israel have made an outstanding discovery of 3,300-year-old pottery dating back to the period of Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II and also perhaps to the period of Moses. The archaeologists have described the finding …
An American family has donated a unique, 2,700-year-old papyrus fragment to Israel. The family had been in possession of the papyrus for years. The small fragment comprises four ancient Hebrew lines written in the language …
Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne seven years after World War II ended and was coronated more than a year after her father, George VI died to allow a time of mourning . Millions …
Akdamar Church, also known as the Church of the Holy Cross, is a medieval Armenian cathedral located in the eastern Van province of Turkey, which hosted a special ceremony on Sunday. The ceremony marked the …
One of the oldest hand-written Gospels has been returned by Washington, D.C.’s Museum of the Bible to the Greek Orthodox Church. In 1917, during the First World War, the manuscript and a number of other …
Daryl Perry of USA Today writes that religious scholars disagree on the issue of Jesus’ age at his death. Varying accounts and the use of different calendars make it difficult to pinpoint the final days …