“Jesus … chose twelve, whom he called Apostles” (Luke 6:13). In her book Team of Rivals, author Doris Kearns Goodwin tells how President Lincoln deliberately ...

After the death of Jesus, his core group of followers went on to spread the good news about the life, death, and resurrection of their leader. Known as the Disciples or the Apostles, this cluster of ...

When we imagine the Apostles watching Jesus ascend through the clouds into the heavens, the event of Our Lord’s Ascension might strike us as a rather sad event. After all, the Apostles had spent three ...

Jews from many nations, speaking a wide array of languages, were staying in Jerusalem at the time after Jesus' death, resurrection and ascension when a powerful wind swept in upon a house where his ...

During the last 100 years, archaeologists have all but confirmed the location of the tombs of Sts. Peter, Paul, and John. (We have to hedge a bit here, because unlike other branches of the sciences, ...

This story appears in the March 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the town of Parur, India, in the southern state of Kerala, the polished stone floor of the old church of Kottakkavu ...