When the woman died, she was buried under the altar of a church some three kilometers northwest of Jerusalem’s Old ... including the Eastern Orthodox Church, are also venerated for their ascetic ...

Baptism does what nothing else can. As Martin Luther said, by baptism “we are made holy and are saved, which no other kind of ...

The conjecture that the Irish, like the other inhabitants of the British Isles are of Hebrew extraction has for many ...

It is my first night in Jerusalem ... where Abraham built an altar to sacrifice his son Isaac at God’s command. Scores of Orthodox Jews are praying here this night, and I find a place among ...

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and Oriental Orthodox churches deny women access to the priesthood, despite the presence of female disciples, deaconesses, and prophetesses in the early Church. In contrast, Anglican, Old Catholic ...

Introduction The history of Lent dates back to centuries ago with Christians spending time preparing to celebrate the ...

The pope sought reconciliation with various branches of Christianity, including the eastern Orthodox and Anglican churches. However the decision of the Church of England to ... Of the trip to ...

Jewish ultra-Orthodox men and children, some wearing costumes read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of the Jewish ...

"The closer you bury the dead to the altar area, the greater the chances that the responsible saint will come to his church on Judgement Day and collect the souls at the same time," Rutter said.

Nir Bergman’s Pink Lady, which opened on Thursday, is an excellent movie that tells a complex, moving story of an ultra-Orthodox couple ... a haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem with her husband ...