John the Baptist was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in East... English Sign in Chat Timeline Top Qs ...

In my first visit to Syria, which was being torn apart by the Arab Spring, the most startling experience outside the Umayyad ...

History knows him as John the Baptist – a fisher of men, a voice in the wilderness, the baptizer of Jesus, and a pillar of the Christian faith. Though he met his end at the whim of a vengeful ...

Towering over Lafayette Square in the Historic District, the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist's Gothic towers should lure in any architecture buff. The original cathedral was established ...

the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in ...

Who was St. Andrew and why is he patron saint of Scotland? Patron saints. In the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, a patron ...

This Sunday’s gospel lectionary reading for Advent 2 in Year C is Luke 3.1–6, the location and opening of John the Baptist’s ministry. We will hear more about the content of John’s ministry next week; ...

The US has removed the $10 million bounty on Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Mohammad al-Jolani after he led a successful ...

Amy Surak, the archivist at Manhattan University in New York, oversees a collection of holy relics that have been accumulated by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a lay order of the Catholic ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...

Before the advent of Islam, the site hosted several religious structures. During the Iron Age, it was a place of worship for ...