by webdeveloper | Feb 24, 2025 | Latest News
If we enter the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and turn to the right, we ascend a steep staircase to Calvary, the site of the Crucifixion. There, to the right, we find a Catholic chapel, and if we look up at the ceiling, we discover a mosaic depicting...
by webdeveloper | Jan 24, 2025 | Latest News
Western shore of the Dead Sea, between Qumran and Ein Gedi. Photo: Eyal Asaf. The Dead Sea is the sea of all superlatives: at 420 meters below the Mediterranean, it is the lowest point on Earth; with salinity levels almost ten times higher than those of the ocean, it...
by webdeveloper | Dec 19, 2024 | Latest News
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of...
by webdeveloper | Oct 21, 2024 | Latest News
With the week of Sukkot—the Festival of Booths, Cabanas, or Tabernacles—the cycle of holidays for the month of Tishrei (September/October) in the Jewish lunar calendar comes to an end. In Jesus’ time, as well as today, this was one of the major festivals,...
by webdeveloper | Sep 23, 2024 | Latest News
Before becoming king, David had entered the service of King Saul. In the palace, David would play the lyre to calm the king’s anxiety attacks. There, he became friends with Jonathan, Saul’s son. But David, due to his victories against the Philistines—particularly...
