Protected by Rome and allowed to continue their religion, everything was fine until rebellion in Judaea led to a major change in the practice of their faith. By the beginning of the first century ...

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Passover is a holiday in the Jewish faith celebrating the ancient Hebrews' exodus from slavery out of Egypt. For decades, the ...

Now why did he leave Galilee and head for Jerusalem? Jesus apparently at some point makes the decision to leave his home territory and move to Jerusalem. Precisely why he did that is not clear.

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction. Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy ...

Rocket attacks, protests at holy sites, violent police clashes: Israel is in chaos. (JTA) — Rocket attacks in Israel. Airstrikes in Gaza. Violence in Jerusalem’s holiest sites. Protests across ...

The great construction project began. A newly freed nation, emerging from generations of slavery, was now entrusted with the most epic and ambitious building endeavor in human history. It was not ...