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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in ...

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 ...

The Romans practiced crucifixion - literally, "fixed to a cross" - for nearly a millennium. It was a public, painful, and slow form of execution, and used as a way to deter future crimes and humiliate ...

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 ...

Several small cemeteries were unearthed in Cambridgeshire, England in 2017. A skeleton of a man somewhere between the ages of 25 and 35 was found and showed signs of crucifixion. Twelve nails were ...

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 ...

One account, written in the mid-second century or later, and not included in the New Testament, even claimed that Jesus’ crucifixion was not ordered by Pilate. Instead, it blamed Herod Antipas, the ...