A 2,000-year-old burial cave in Israel is continuing to stir debate. Who exactly was buried here? Was it one of Jesus’ female ...

On Friday, July 4, the United States will celebrate the 249th anniversary of the official signing of the Declaration of ...

Other religious messages on church website directed ire at former Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, immigrants and ...

Biblical tradition holds that Herod I, who ruled from 37 B.C. to 4 B.C., ordered the death of all male babies in Bethlehem, but no objective historical evidence has yet emerged that supports that ...

“The King of Kings” is an animated film about the life of Jesus as narrated by Charles Dickens to his child and cat, which is not quite as Mad Libs-adjacent as it sounds.

Among the top opening for Bible-based animated pics are 1998’s The Prince of Egypt, which opened to $14.5M, followed by The Star and Jonah, which debuted respectively to $9.8M and $6.2M.

When Herod died in 4 B.C.E., his demise was long and painful. Josephus describes Herod’s suffering as “the penalty that God was exacting of the king for his great impiety”—a tyrant’s death.

Zora Neale Hurston’s final work, saved from a fire, is a flawed gem More than 60 years after her death, Hurston’s unfinished novel “The Life of Herod the Great” showcases her passion for ...

King Herod had heard rumors of the birth of a new “king” and jealously sought out the baby. In the Book of Matthew, the magi stopped at Herod’s palace on their way to Bethlehem, and the king ...

In a scene that—as far as I’m aware—does not appear in the Bible, Herod’s men catch up to Mary and Joseph. They kill the kind couple who is hiding them, and burn down the house.

Mary, directed by D.J. Caruso, follows the miraculous conception of Mary's child, inciting King Herod's wrath as he attempts to eliminate the newborn, whom he perceives as a threat to his reign.