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A team of archaeologists claims to have found the exact location where Jesus famously turned water into wine at the wedding ...

By Mark Wilmoth An old Chinese proverb says, “He who asks a question seems a fool for a moment, but he who does not ask remains a fool for life.” One of my old math teachers put it more bluntly: ...

When they had entered the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying; that is, Peter and John and … These ...

Country superstar Dierks Bentley returning with the album “Broken Branches” and Sydney Sweeney in the dark, dramatic thriller ...

For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

After his resurrection, Jesus was with his disciples for 40 days. He used that time to tell them of important aspects of his kingdom yet to come. When he ascended up to heaven, two men in white ...

The first ecumenical council, known as the Council of Nicaea, is still accepted as authoritative by the Catholic Church, the ...

As loneliness spreads and spiritual confusion deepens, the Reviv3 app invites users to encounter Jesus on their own road to ...

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your ...

Former Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Jerry Lundergan and his wife, Charlotte, helped break ground for a religious garden ...

The Face of Jesus” examines two images of Christ — the Shroud of Turin and the Veil of Manoppello — as well as the image of ...