(New treasures are being unearthed under Jerusalem.) The Madaba Map was incorporated into the new church of St. George, Madaba, Jordan. The mosaic was found when the ruins of the old Byzantine ...

Below the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter, Father Samuel Aghoyan views a quarry that was used as a Jewish cemetery during the time of Jesus. A nearby rock outcrop ...

Jerusalem Today: A Complex but Open City Despite ongoing tensions, Jerusalem today is a mosaic of cultures ... pilgrims freely enter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Muslims pray daily on ...

Top boffin John Marco Allegro backed the bizarre claim that Jesus wasn’t a bloke, but a magic mushroom, during the late 1960s after he became one of the first scholars to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

A special session of the synod of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church here on Friday decided to relieve Metropolitan Zacharias Mar Aprem of the Adoor-Kadampanad Diocese from all diocesan ...

History’s first American pope recalled that on Saturday the Catholic Church marked a special feast day to pray for the church in China. Pope Benedict XVI had initiated the feast day as part of ...

Toms River, N.J., is poised to use eminent domain to raze an Episcopal church to build a park. The church had wanted to set up a 17-bed shelter. By Tracey Tully Leaders of Christ Episcopal Church ...

THE House of Bishops at their residential meeting this week discussed the part played by women in the Church of England, and agreed that each diocese should have at least one adviser on women’s ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority conservation team working on the mosaic’s preservation. A vivid 4th-century mosaic, buried for more than 1,600 years in the sands of the western Negev ...

Thousands of Israeli nationalists took part in the controversial Jerusalem Day "Dance of the Flags". The event is provocative to the Palestinian population, given it marks the anniversary of ...

He recalled how Paul and Barnabas then went up to Jerusalem: “They did not settle the question on their own: they wanted to be in communion with the Mother Church and so they went there with ...