Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

My friend Father Michael Azar, a Greek Orthodox priest and scholar, calls the Book of Revelation the most misunderstood book in the New Testament. “It is a source of joy,” he told me. “At Patmos, St.

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Among the many distinctions between Christianity and every other religion, one that stands out in particular is that God is not a far-off, uninvolved, detached deity. From the first book of the Bible ...

Eighty-one years ago, while America was at war and millions of Jews were being slaughtered, the rabbi of the Washington ...

Mount Sinai Beth Israel began closing its doors Tuesday after a New York appeals court rejected a community group’s bid to keep it open. The ruling, handed down by the Appellate Division of the state ...

Have you ever contemplated what it might be like to tread in the footsteps of God? Around the globe, there are holy locations where the divine presence is thought to have graced the earth. Whether you ...

At the world’s oldest monastery, new technology is making long-lost manuscripts available to anyone with an Internet connection St. Catherine’s Monastery was built at the foot of Mt. Sinai in the 6th ...

Atop one of Egypt’s Sinai mountains, near where the three Abrahamic faiths say God spoke with Moses, another unmistakable ...

Atop one of Egypt's Sinai mountains, near where the three Abrahamic faiths say God spoke with Moses, another unmistakable ...

Who doesn’t love a good Old Testament story from the Bible? I remember one in particular about a prophet named Elijah. You may remember that he went to Mount Horeb ...