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 …
A 1,500-year-old Greek inscription has been discovered by a team of archaeologists that points to the Apostle Peter’s home. The inscription was found on an ancient basilica close to the Sea of Galilee and it …
Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam (A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land), a 15th-century travel guide, is considered history’s first illustrated travelogue. The book narrates the pilgrimage of Bernhard von Breydenbach, a German diplomat and clergyman to …
The record-breaking heatwave in the United Kingdom last month generated a number of fires, including massive blaze across a field north of Kent. But much to everyone’s surprise, it stopped at the edge of a …
Historian and Baptist minister Carey Latimore IV, whose work focused on studying and highlighting the strength of Black Christians’ faith, died July 26. The unexpected death of the 46-year-old historian shocked his colleagues at Trinity …
The excavation of three suspected graves located at the site of one of the first Black churches in the United States has started in order to determine the identity and way of life of those …
One of the first known ancient depictions of Jael and Deborah, two Biblical heroines, has been uncovered at the Huqoq dig site in Israel by a group from the University of North Carolina at Chapel …
Dutch art historian and crime investigator Arthur Brand, also known as the “Indiana Jones of Art,” has recovered a 2000-year-old relic containing lead vials of the Precious Blood of Christ. Thieves stole the relic from …