cross, lamb, shepherd, dove, and the abbreviation for Christ. One of the best known early Christian symbols, because of its modern revival, is the fish. Some early Christians made the Greek word ...

A city recently announced the discovery of a gilded Christian artifact dating back to the Early Middle Ages. In a statement ...

In the early centuries after the time of Jesus Christ, there were other symbols: a dove ... the cross. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches use the crucifix as a focus of religious ...

a dove descending toward Christ, and of course, Jesus, on the cross or being baptized. But the complexity of religious history and the multitude of interpretations that arise from a single event ...

Monica Miller, the Humanist association's senior counsel, says the cross was always intended to be a religious symbol, and its original planners wanted it to look like the cross of Calvary ...

The high court's ruling is a major victory for religious groups and the American Legion, which warned that if this cross had to be moved, so, too, would other crosses that serve as war memorials.

As a millenniums-old symbol of Christian faith, the cross would seem somewhat immune to trendiness. But cross necklaces and pendants have been in vogue before and may be again as some feel more ...