It was in February 2016 that archaeologists unearthed a unique rock-carved underground Byzantine church in Nevsehir in ...

The Amish community in the Susquehanna Valley will observe Ascension Day on Thursday. It commemorates Jesus' physical ascension into heaven. It falls on the 40th day following Easter Sunday.

In the Resurrection and Ascension, love moves, changes, transforms and even becomes unrecognizable from how it began––just like Jesus in his newly resurrected body. But love never leaves.

Jesus' ascension into heaven is depicted in a fresco in the cloister of the Dominican friars' convent next to the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome April 18, 2024. The friars have ...

Fresco of the Ascension, by S.G. Rudl (1900). (photo: Renata Sedmakova / Shutterstock) The Editors Editorial June 5, 2025 ...

Imagine it. What it would have been like, sitting in a crowded room, packed together with the other followers of Jesus mourning his second loss, his ascension into heaven, while also celebrating ...

Imagine it. What it would have been like, sitting in a crowded room, packed together with the other followers of Jesus mourning his second loss, his ascension into heaven, while also celebrating ...

He rose from the dead to win eternal life for us in heaven, through faith. But, Jesus is not just with us for eternal life. He is also with us today. Thursday, May 29 is Ascension Day for 2025.

Ascension Day commemorates the Christian belief of Jesus Christ’s ascension into heaven, occurring 40 days after Easter Sunday.

In First Peter 3:21, 22 another apostolic author refers to Christ’s resurrection, ascension, and glorification (“through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at ...

On May 9, Christians celebrate the Ascension, symbolizing Jesus' ascent to God. Le Monde explores the history and symbolism of one of Christianity's most important feasts.