Christian tradition depicts Jesus’ tomb as empty and solitary, but archaeology tells a different story. Tombs in Jerusalem were family complexes filled with multiple bodies. Early gospel writers ...

In Jerusalem, that ancient and holy city, people's houses are built on bones. For thousands of years, hundreds of generations of Jews, Muslims and Christians have been laid to rest in its rocky soil.

The powerful Greek Orthodox Church on Thursday accused the director of the movie “Titanic” of historical ignorance and trying to damage the Christian faith by claiming that the tomb of Jesus Christ ...

Workers move a marble slab to expose deeper layers in the Edicule within the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which is revered as the site of Jesus’ tomb. (National Geographic via YouTube) After more ...

You may put truth in a grave; it won’t stay there. You may nail the truth to a cross and shut it up in a tomb; the truth will rise — as Jesus Christ rose on Easter morning.” The resurrection of Jesus ...

“At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.”—John 19:41 As a literary device, this description of the burial place of ...

The Orthodox Christian ceremony, which is attended by Catholics and other Christians, as well, has been held continuously since at least 1106. The "Holy Fire" is passed from inside Christ's tomb to ...

Using a remote-controlled camera on the end of a robotic arm, investigators have found what could be the earliest evidence of a Christian iconography in Jerusalem, engraved on a set of "bone boxes" ...

Jerusalem – With big egos competing for sacred space and urgent claims that a miracle is imminent, Jerusalem’s latest religious conflict has all the makings of a classic Holy City conflagration. All, ...

A fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" adorns the wall of a tomb in Turkey (AP) Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a significant early Christian fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good ...

Today is Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. It’s one of my favorite days of the year, as it concludes my busiest week of the year as a pastor: Holy Week. Though different ...

For millions of Christians, the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone of their faith, a moment they believe rewrote history. But skeptics insist the event has far more earthly explanations, arguing ...