The Romans, for all that they had adopted crucifixion as the “supreme penalty,” refused to countenance the possibility that it might have originated with them. Only a people famed for their ...

It wasn’t just the heavens weeping. A jaw-dropping discovery by NASA may lend cosmic credibility to one of the Bible’s most dramatic moments — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — and the spooky sky show ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Almost 2,000 years after his death, the man's skeleton still had a two-inch nail piercing its foot. The skeleton has a nail piercing its foot, perhaps the best-preserved archaeological evidence of ...

A debate about the crucifixion of Jesus was ignited when archaeologists discovered 12 boxes in a burial cave in south Jerusalem in 1990. Two of these boxes were inscribed with the word Caiaphas, the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...