Israel’s attack on Iran reveals its ability to hit any of its regional adversaries with overwhelming force, even without direct U.S. assistance.

there is no political entity known as “East Jerusalem”—not now and not at any point in history. The latest of these claims came on May 17 in Baghdad, where Abbas addressed fellow strongmen ...

Many Christmas carols make mention of the three kings, who follow a star and come ... magi have been interpreted as kings. According to the Book of Matthew, a bright star led the magi from the ...

According to Scripture, when the Magi, who had been guided by a star from the east, found the child Jesus ... reminds us that the Son of God came into the world to encounter every man and ...

The text says, “Behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage.’” Who were ...

According to Matthew 2:1-2, ‘Magi came from the east’ after seeing ‘a star in the east’. This gives me cause to wonder if we have understood this correctly. If the star appeared in the ...

Instead, their description is tantalizingly brief: “Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, ‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have ...

We learn of their journey in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 2: In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, magi from the east came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the ...

who controlled East Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967, then resettled Palestinian refugees from within the Green Line in Sheikh Jarrah, where many of their families still live. The neighborhood came ...

Most of the international community considers East Jerusalem, which includes the Old City, to be illegally occupied. In 1977, when Israel’s first right-wing government came to power, Israel ...

However, the Church celebrates three manifestations of the life of Jesus as epiphanies: the Epiphany of the Magi from the East ... It began in the East and then came to the West in the fourth ...