In Jesus' day, Sepphoris was the thriving administrative center for the Galilee region, located only four miles northwest of humble Nazareth where Jesus grew up.

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency) The synagogue at Capernaum (K’far Nahum in Hebrew), recorded in the New Testament as one of the first places where Jesus of Nazareth spoke to the people, will be ...

Capernaum is Labaki’s third and most ambitious film to date: a kind of social-realist blockbuster which in certain nerve-shredding sections resembles nothing less than a world-cinema remake of ...

“Capernaum” is set in the Dickensian world of present-day childhood impoverishment in Lebanon. Using non-professional actors and shooting on location, director Nadine Labaki reinvents Italian ...

From fear to calm: Spiritual direction on stormy waters These Gospel stories can seem so familiar. But sit with the disciples in the little wooden boat, and Jesus' power will render you speechless.

However, I did know that Jesus was Jewish, a startling fact I learned at age eight. One day, my paternal grandmother talked about numerous famous, talented Jews, both living and dead.

BIBLICAL scripture and archaeological evidence have led researchers to the places Jesus Christ once called home, a Bible expert has astonishingly claimed.

Tiny town at heart of Christianity; Capernaum: Today, Pope John Paul II will visit the lakeside village where Jesus lived, taught and chose his ‘fishers of men.’ ...