Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. and the very stereotypes from which the Jesus character was born. With his signature strut, hairnet-covered cornrows, ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

Those were trying times for Rome. Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian Caesars and a big spender with a reputedly homicidal temper, was on the throne. Stories abound of how he attempted to poison his ...

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When Pope Francis chose one of the Little Brothers of Jesus to be rector of the Diocese of Rome's main seminary, members of the order founded by Blessed Charles de Foucauld were stunned. "The explicit ...

The bust depicts Jesus with long, curling hair, looking serenely outward and stretching out his hand as if in blessing. The renowned Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s famous sculpture "Salvator ...

AP — Christians on Friday celebrated the return to the Holy Land of a tiny wooden relic they believe was part of Jesus’s manger, nearly 1,400 years after it was sent to Rome as a gift to the pope. The ...

It was not unusual for family members to offer wine as a sedative to ease the suffering of those condemned to die upon the cross. For the Roman soldier to imitate this act of compassion by putting a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in ...