If it seems that we are more Roman than Christian these days, it can help to recall that the hero of Easter is Jesus and not ...

This Easter Sunday, before pouncing on the chocolate eggs, let us imagine the scene in Jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago.

Betrayed by a kiss and abandoned by His closest friends, He faced a series of sham trials, false accusations and merciless ...

Both the Jews and the Romans certainly saw Jesus as a troublemaker. The Gospels depict Herod Antipas, the Jewish agent of ...

SAN DIEGO —- Have you ever driven past a neighborhood and wondered what was going on in the homes you passed? What would you see if you could be invisible and stand at their back door and look in?

Instead, it blamed Herod Antipas, the Jewish ruler of Galilee – the region where Jesus grew up. Other texts from after the first few centuries A.D. said that Pilate became a Christian. Scholars have ...

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social subversives – crucifixion. The New Testament Gospels ...

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons ...

Instead, it blamed Herod Antipas , the Jewish ruler of Galilee – the region where Jesus ... Was it for suggesting that he was the Messiah , or, in Pilate's wording,“King of the Jews”? Did Jesus incite ...

London-based Riverway Law has lodged an application to have Hamas removed from the UK's list of proscribed terrorist organisations (L-R lawyers Franck Magennis, Farhad Ansari and Daniel Grutters ...