Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Tetrarchic boundary stone at the site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel. Originally ...

His name had a second coming. Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — ...

She said she had read that Italy had arrested an Iranian engineer three days earlier at the request of the United States. The ...

Just as ancient Roman Empire had its protective geniuses of war, so in today’s dominant new patriarchal martyrology, the ...

The contrast was striking: his radiant face December 26, 2024, inside the brick church of Rebibbia prison—one of Italy ... the world,” the 88-year-old Roman pontiff had opened the first ...

When the Romans reached Britain in the first century, they were shocked to find “remarkable” women standing in their way.

Scholars refer to three biblical epistles as “prison epistles” because Saint Paul authored them while imprisoned in Rome.

Violence has been a part of human behaviour since the dawn of history, but it often took excessively brutal forms. To curb ...

For them, crucifixion was the ultimate bad news about Jesus. The scandal of death by crucifixion was almost beyond our ...

The biggest Michelangelo exhibition in over a century is planned in Denmark thanks to the use of high-tech 3D replicas.

A story that seems hard to believe claims two death row inmates are rejecting President Biden's decision to change their ...