These three key religious texts all offer justifications for defensive wars. But they also stress the importance of peace.

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of ...

The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

The Christian Bible accepts this principle in John 8:17. In Jewish law, two witnesses must testify that they warned the assailant he could be sentenced to death if he commits murder.

Wars are often waged in the name of religion. So what do key texts from Christianity, Islam and Judaism say about the justification for war?Authors ...