Gelasius is also responsible for a popular celebration which is still marked every year - establishing St Valentine's Day on ...

The counting of the Omer began in mid-Nissan and will conclude at the beginning of Sivan, but only in Iyar do we count every single day of the Omer. It’s a month that helps us live with a heightened ...

Whether created by ancient Egyptian scribes, medieval monks, or Mayan priests, these 26 remarkable survivors have endured ...

The funeral for Francis, the first first Latin American pontiff, is set for 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Peter's Square in The ...

One of Pope Francis’ most controversial moves was to restrict the use of the ancient Latin Mass; he said he did this to ...

Judith Niewiadomski, Yonkers Passover commemorates not only the liberation of the children of Israel from 400 years of ...

This Friday is Jumaa’ al Hazeeneh (Arabic for Good Friday), and to Palestinian Christians this phrase is pregnant with ...

In some of them, he even proclaims so in public. But the chief priests of the ancient Jewish temple at Jerusalem see Jesus as ...

Jarvis began by recounting the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s by Bedouin shepherds near the ancient ...

Judas Iscariot received 30 silver coins to betray Jesus and put him in the hands of Caiaphas, or in today's money, around ...

He referenced the irrefutable fact—substantiated by carbon dating—that underneath the Muslim buildings on the Temple Mount, ...