A student in Nigeria died on Good Friday during an attempt to reenact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The incident occurred during a performance of a Passion Play, a dramatic reenactment of Christ’s ...

Crucifixion followed a bloody script of sorts that maximized the suffering and prolonged death. It began when the one being crucified was stripped of his clothing then beaten with a flagrum, a ...

The Romans, for all that they had adopted crucifixion as the “supreme penalty,” refused to countenance the possibility that it might have originated with them. Only a people famed for their ...

At the beginning of the summer of 1968 a team of archaeologists under the direction of V. Tzaferis discovered four cave-tombs at Giv'at ha-Mivtar (Ras el-Masaref), which is just north of Jerusalem ...

There has been some talk recently about a new book by Cambridge University professor Colin Humphreys that proposes the Last Supper was held on Wednesday of Holy Week (GET IT HERE), rather than on ...

NEW: Ali al-Nimr's uncle's sentence of death and crucifixion upheld; he is also now on death row Ali al-Nimr was arrested in 2012 at age 17 for alleged crimes in connection with the Arab Spring ...

If you stop and think about it, the Christian message is utterly out of sync with what human beings would expect. That the Son of the All-Powerful and Ever-Living God would allow himself to be ...

This week, people in the U.S., and here in New York in particular, are being warned to brace for the toughest and deadliest period yet in our struggle against COVID-19. I would never want to claim ...