Crucifixion remains a familiar idea, even though it’s a punishment from the distant past. It’s so familiar that we no longer consider of the physical realities of it. Those realities are some of the ...

Just in time for Holy Week, a holy staircase believed to be "stained with Christ's blood" from the crucifixion is open to Christian pilgrims after 300 years of being closed off. The 28 steps of Rome's ...

If you stop and think about it, the Christian message is utterly out of sync with what human beings would expect. That the Son of the All-Powerful and Ever-Living God would allow himself to be ...

A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, sold at 2.3 million euros ($2.7 million) at an auction Sunday in Versailles. The painting was ...

“Crucifixion,” a wall-sized oil painting created by Renato Guttuso (1911-87), one of Italy’s finest modern painters, is widely recognized as a 20th-century masterpiece today. But a year after the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Crucifixion: The act of putting to death by nailing or binding the hands and feet to a cross. This brutal method of execution that has become synonymous with torture is the ...

For Christians around the world Easter is the most important festival of the year – the time when they celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Yet it can't be understood without knowing what went ...

03:13, Fri, Jul 14, 2017 Updated: 08:00, Fri, Jul 14, 2017 Because painted on the walls of the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Georgia is an image of Christ that has sent conspiracy theorists into a ...

It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since Xavier Gens galvanized horror fans with his gore-soaked Euro-thriller “Frontier(s).” It’s even harder to believe that a filmmaker who once made something ...

Well, it’s Easter — that springtime holiday filled with bunnies, chocolate eggs and one of the most horrendous ways to die imaginable. At CGM, we like to create lists around holidays because, well, ...

VERSAILLES, France — A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, sold at 2.3 million euros ($2.7 million) at an auction Sunday in ...