Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crucifix is seen at St. Barbara Catholic Church in Massillon. The crucifixion of Jesus is one of the most illustrated events in ...

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons It’s a ...

On Friday, Christians around the world commemorate with prayers and fasting the death of Jesus Christ days before the arrival of Easter and the hope of the Resurrection. The church calls on believers ...

Dr. Robin Jensen, who is the Patrick O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, will present the “The Cross and the Crucifix: The Emergence and Evolution of a Christian Image” as ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...

There have been many famous deaths in world history; we might think of John F. Kennedy, or Marie Antoinette, or Cleopatra, but we do not refer to "the assassination," "the guillotining," or "the ...

As millions prepare to celebrate Easter this weekend, professing faith in the resurrection of Jesus on the holiest day of the Christian calendar, they will also embrace the engine of his death. The ...

It wasn’t just the heavens weeping. A jaw-dropping discovery by NASA may lend cosmic credibility to one of the Bible’s most dramatic moments — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — and the spooky sky show ...

As we near the end of Black History Month and start of Lent, let's explore the crucifixion of Jesus Christ through the plight ...

The crucifixion of Jesus is one of the most illustrated events in human history. For centuries, artists have reimagined it as a form of remembrance and as a means to convey the story of brutality and ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...