SAMAHIJ, BAHRAIN—According to a statement released by the University of Exeter, a Christian building occupied between the mid-fourth and mid-eighth centuries A.D. has been uncovered in Bahrain. A ...

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction. Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre ...

The center of Failaka is a low-lying swampy area that is now the province of mosquitoes and wandering white camels that belong to the Kuwaiti emir. But a millennium ago, this was a three-square-mile ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Archaeologists in Turkey recently excavated the ruins of a millennia-old city, revealing a fifth-century Christian church with a message that hasn’t been seen in over 1,000 years. The excavation took ...

Prologue: Reintroducing the earliest Christian manuscripts -- The early Christian book -- The dating game -- Finding early Christian books in Egypt -- A discovery "which threw all others in the shade" ...

From frescoes depicting Jonas and the whale to a reconstruction of a papal crypt within the Roman catacombs and some of the earliest Christian writings, early Christian Rome holds a bounty of history.

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Journal of Religion is one of the publications by which the Divinity School of The University of Chicago seeks to ...

In a small auditorium of Rome’s Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, New York’s Cardinal Spellman stood last week before 200 assembled notables to dedicate an impressive gift. Everyone on ...