As Easter approaches, Christians around the world begin to focus on two of the central tenets of their faith: the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth ... the people of Israel from their ...

Israel is home to a wide range of significant Christian sites ... Altar erected over the place of the crucifixion of Jesus. Photo by Opis Zagrebe/Shutterstock This ornate altar stands over the ...

Decades of Roman rule were causing ever more resentment. Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee. As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos.

This month, the historian Nathanael Andrade weighs in with a new book, “Killing the Messiah: The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.” In it, Andrade, a scholar of the Greco-Roman world ...

Good Friday commemorates the suffering, crucifixion and death of Jesus of Nazareth more than 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. At first glance, Good Friday seems like the ultimate misnomer.

So an artisan of some sort is probably the best way of describing him. Jesus grew up in Nazareth, a village in the Galilee. Now the Galilee, by most of the traditional accounts, is always ...

On a quiet hilltop in northern Israel, surrounded by palm ... The Greek Orthodox Church of St. Gabriel, also in Nazareth, claims that honor as well. Jesus prayed at this site in Jerusalem with ...

As Easter approaches, Christians around the world begin to focus on two of the central tenets of their faith: the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth ... sent to save the people of Israel from ...