JISH, Israel – Two villages in the Holy Land’s tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from ...

Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle ...

JERUSALEM - An ancient, dying language gets a new life on American movie screens this week. Some linguists, who fear the language spoken by Jesus could vanish within a few decades, hope for a boost ...

Amanda Smith: This week on Lingua Franca, what language did Jesus speak? Hi, I'm Amanda Smith and the question's been prompted by the release of the Mel Gibson film The Passion of the Christ. In the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

What do these three locales have in common: a remote village in Syria; Sydney, Australia; and the Old City of Jerusalem? The answer is: Aramaic, a dominant language in the ancient world. Now, Jews, ...

Probably no film in history has been written about as much before its public debut as Mel Gibson’s new movie about the last days of Jesus. Many of the critics and scholars who have seen it screened in ...

Beleaguered pilgrimage destination that still speaks Aramaic just one of many cities eclipsing Rio de Janeiro. In a beleaguered Syrian city where many Christians still speak the language of Jesus, ...

Assyrian Christians, who had fled the unrest in Syria, carry a wooden cross outside the Saint Georges Assyrian Church in Jdeideh, northeast of Beirut. Aramaic-speaking Assyrians are being driven from ...