(Golgotha had that name because the ... holding the cross from falling atop Jesus. Those who are good — his Mother and St. John — are in the background, the rear left. Evil is all around ...

The Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem begins with commemorating ... ropes on the cross in the midst of the crowd represent murdered campesinos, McIntosh writes. The landscape in the background illustrates ...

Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — he went ... “However, given ...

“My focus right now is on my Indigenous background where my folks are from ... “Heysus,” an interpretation of his given name, Jesus. He played with the letter forms and structures ...

Jesus, the Bible says, carried something called a stauros out to Calvary. Everyone thought it meant cross, but it does not only mean cross. We cannot say every instance of this noun, stauros ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Archaeologists working at an ancient church in Turkey believe they have unearthed a piece of the cross used to crucify Jesus. But it could take years of analysis before the ...

Our familiarity with the story of Jesus’s suffering and death tends to domesticate the horrors of the cross. But we shouldn’t fool ourselves: Jesus was the victim of brutal Roman execution by ...

Coming from Latin, it literally means “from the cross.” Excruciating pain is literally what Jesus suffered from the cross. A number of years ago, a doctor researched crucifixion to explain ...

I’ve distilled his insights to fit my available space: “The cross defeats the powers. Jesus is a social and spiritual troublemaker whose presence threatens both the Roman authority and the ...

A God who allows suffering is a mystery, but so is a God who suffered. “Stations of the Cross: Jesus and Simon of Cyrene,” by Giandomenico Tiepolo, (1745-1749).Credit...Scala/Art Resource ...

incorporates a relic of the cross on which Jesus was crucified Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the world's most famous families.