Dramatising the life of Jesus was a first for television drama, but BBC producers had to tread carefully around some sensitive and difficult concerns. The BBC’s relationship with religion has often ...

Along with ritual immersion, John the Baptist called people to moral reform. His essential message, like the prophets of Israel before him, was one of repentance from sin in anticipation of God’s ...

Seventy years ago, in February 1956, the BBC aired the mini-series Jesus of Nazareth, the first television adaptation of the life of Jesus This is the story ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A recent study offers new insight into the origin of an object known as the Shroud of Turin. Many consider the sheet to be a holy relic, marked with ...

The cleaning operation is expected to be completed by Easter, in the first week of April. The public can continue to visit in the meantime.

A big foundation of the Nazareth Area High School wrestling team’s success in the postseason is its early-morning conditioning workouts. It’s fitting, then, that the Blue Eagles started their run in ...

Mason noted that on March 15, 1884, The Salt Lake Tribune published, “A Red Hot Address” — purporting to be a transcript of a ...

On a hillside overlooking modern Nazareth, visitors step away from traffic and apartment blocks and into a re-created agricultural landscape shaped by stone terraces, vineyards and olive trees — a ...

Wim Wenders heads up the competition jury for the Berlin Film Festival, running February 12 - 22 and launching with Shahrbanoo Sadat's "No Good Men." More than 200 films screen across the sections ...

A recent study offers new insight into the origin of an object known as the Shroud of Turin. Many consider the sheet to be a holy relic, marked with the impression of a dying man they believe to be ...

Playing religious characters always comes with great responsibility. This is particularly true for actors who have to play such a prominent Biblical character like Jesus Christ. Jesus has been ...