“‘Good’ in this instance means something like ‘holy’ or ‘pious ... at a very tense political and religious moment,” says Moss. “This made the Roman authorities nervous ...

She described how religious tourists to Jerusalem reenacted the events of Holy Week. On Palm Sunday ... an audience beyond Palestine, and in the Roman Empire of the first century, there was ...

Packs of visitors inched along, brandishing maps ... Roman baths, and the camel caravans and marketplace bustle befitting the center of an ancient crossroads between east and west. After the Roman ...

After all, they expected a conquering king to free them from the domination of the Roman Empire. To free them ... but few are chosen” (Matthew 22:14). Holy Monday, indeed! It was a Monday like no ...

Christians are celebrating Holy Week with processions and reenactments in places like Jerusalem, Brazil, Nigeria, India, ...

The number represents the seven final places Jesus visited from His arrest to His crucifixion, allowing the faithful to ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Pope Francis has visited Rome’s main prison and kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least ...

Jacob Derry, a Pontifical North American College student and seminarian for the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, helped organize ...

Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday and ends with Easter. It's celebrated by more than 2 billion Christians around the world.

The report revealed a climate of hostility that, according to one of the study’s authors, Federica Sasso, only represents ...