“Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a press conference.

Two events stand on firmer historical ground than almost anything else in Jesus’ life: a baptism and a Roman execution. That narrow certainty is what makes Jesus of Nazareth such a compelling figure ...

Neither Jesus, nor the Hebrew Bible he interpreted, endorsed the view that departed souls go to paradise or everlasting pain.

Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the Gospel of Luke, Mary placed her child in a manger — an animal feeding bin — ...

One of the biggest pieces missing from biblical accounts of Jesus’ life is his childhood. But apocryphal accounts, such as the Gospel of Thomas, do talk about Jesus’ reportedly miraculous early years.

In building a biography of Jesus, we began last month by charting the years in which he lived. Now we move to Jesus’s family. But you already know Mary and Joseph from the Christmas story. What else ...

Pope Francis greets director Martin Scorsese and his wife, Helen, at the Vatican May 27, 2023, at the end of an audience for participants in a conference sponsored by the Italian Jesuit journal La ...

One might be surprised to discover that the most critically acclaimed motion picture about the life of Jesus Christ is not Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ or Martin Scorcese's The Last ...

(The Conversation) — Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the Gospel of Luke, Mary placed her child in a manger – an ...