President Donald Trump announced on Monday that a peace agreement has been reached between Israel and Iran. There could be ...

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

After the United States carried out coordinated strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites Saturday, pastors and churches across America shared various viewpoints on President Donald Trump for the ...

Before it ever was called Iran, this storied nation was known to the world as Persia, an identity stretching back more than 3,000 years.

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...

AS tensions flare up between modern-day Iran and Israel — through drone warfare, cyberattacks and regional proxy clashes — the world braces for a broader conflagration. Yet beneath this geopolitical ...

It may surprise you to learn that a “prince of Persia” is mentioned in the Bible. This one is for real. The reference comes in the Old Testament book of Daniel, chapter 10, verse 13.

Interestingly, the Book of Esther is set in Persia, modern-day Iran. Iran was a flashpoint in antiquity just as it is now. ... For example, the Bible was once used to support slavery, ...

In the Bible, they are not called kings, and their number is not specified—instead they are “wise men from the East.” At many courts in the east, including ancient Babylon and Persia, ...