Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. and the very stereotypes from which the Jesus character was born. With his signature strut, hairnet-covered cornrows, ...

“One of the most certain facts of history is that Jesus was crucified on orders of the Roman prefect of Judea [Pontius Pilate],” scholar Bart Ehrman wrote, a line often cited because it captures an ...

Rodrigo Santoro, who plays Jesus Christ in the upcoming Ben Hur film, received a blessing from Pope Francis in Rome on Wednesday. During a break from production in Italy, Santoro attended the Papal ...

Those were trying times for Rome. Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian Caesars and a big spender with a reputedly homicidal temper, was on the throne. Stories abound of how he attempted to poison his ...

Whatever the historical reasons for the crucifixion, the Christian tradition has always insisted that one of the reasons ...

Editorial Page Editor Rudy Bush writes that America's public discourse must move away from mob mentality toward reason and virtue. Michael Hogue Less than a century before Pontius Pilate washed his ...

The Annals by Tacitus, composed just 91 years after the death of Jesus, provide according to some invaluable data about his crucifixion and the early persecution of Christians. The work by Tacitus ...

The bust depicts Jesus with long, curling hair, looking serenely outward and stretching out his hand as if in blessing. The renowned Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s famous sculpture "Salvator ...

AP — Christians on Friday celebrated the return to the Holy Land of a tiny wooden relic they believe was part of Jesus’s manger, nearly 1,400 years after it was sent to Rome as a gift to the pope. The ...