Excerpt: Jerusalem in the time of Jesus. ... This 1584 map of Jerusalem, made by a European priest who never visited the city, portrays scenes from the life of Christ in vivid color.

It is the Gospel of Luke that describes Jesus’ childhood visit to Jerusalem. Though he had been there before-Luke says his family was visiting “as usual” for Passover-the 12-year-old from ...

JERUSALEM – Jerusalem's Franciscan friars have opened a new museum filled with artifacts related to daily life in Jesus' time. The Terra Sancta Museum's new wing, built into the ruined remains ...

The new map - based on Bible scripture and archaeological evidence - recounts Christ's journey through Jerusalem in the week leading up to him dying on the cross.. The journey starts at a temple ...

This spring, for the first time in three decades, Ramadan, Easter and Purim — holidays in Islam, Christianity and Judaism — all overlapped within a month-long period.

Jesus was on their radar long before he entered Jerusalem. For three years Jesus had been gaining followers in countryside towns and remote areas healing the sick, blind and crippled. The Jewish ...

A 2000-year-old ritual bath discovered at the site dates from the time of Jesus’s presence in Jerusalem, following Christian belief.

Emily Turjman, a well-known figure in the Latin parish of Jerusalem, outside the Chapel of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. She's showing the rosaries she crafts with embroidery ...

The burial slab inside the chamber of Jesus’s tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem has not been seen since at least 1555 AD, when it was encased by layers of marble.

n this Wednesday, June 27, 2018 photo, visitors look at exhibits, entitled "The House of Herod: Life and Power in the Age of the New Testament," at the Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem.