Within the first 25 years of Christ’s crucifixion, the Jesus movement was spreading like wildfire across the ancient world. All four major cities of the Empire were affected, it seems – Rome, Alexandria, Antioch and Ephesus.

The biblical view of immigration does not only consider the migrant’s position but that of the host country.

The historian Mario Escobar describes historical aspects of the key week in the life of Jesus, whose historicity is sometimes questioned by sceptics.

Tourists are surprised when they first see the pointed hoods used in the Spanish Catholic Holy Week processions.

Andrew Hyatt, director and scriptwriter of “Paul, Apostle of Christ”, talks to Evangelical Focus about his personal involvement in the project and the importance of presenting this kind of historical stories to all audiences.

In the Bible, saffron is only mentioned in the Song of Songs, as one of the most prominent aromatic spices, and with the aim of highlighting the beauty of the beloved.

The horses of the ‘Franches’ are amongst the hardiest that exist.

As I reach the edge of the forest, I stumble on a relevant thought that appears as if by magic in a corner of my mind.

The evangelist was a key leader of the 20th century. Hundreds of thousands made a decision to follow Jesus after hearing him preaching the Gospel. Graham worked to unite evangelical Christians around mission movements.

Outside of Genesis, what do we know about the flood?

In the last months, regional and local authorities have met evangelical representatives in several cities.

All the thinkers who laid the first foundations of human rights were not moralising in a vacuum.

‘Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven...’ (Jesus, in the Gospel of Matthew 18:18)

The term was translated as “cedar”, “poplar” and even “cypress” as it was thought that fir trees did not exist in Biblical lands.

As two superpowers left the Levant, a power vacuum was created. Canaan was left alone, ripe for conquest.

“In popular usage, the word is nearly synonymous with hypocrite”, writes the well-known pastor in an article for The New Yorker magazine.

There are many skeptics today that argue that the laws contained in the Old Testament are written on the basis of earlier Sumerian and Babylonian law codes.

The play “Memory of Ashes” recreates episodes of the life of the man who first translated the New Testament into Spanish.

- ‘My kids and I used to make dens in their bedrooms with sheets and things. We made up this whole new world, full of adventures… ‘

An answer by Khaldoun Sweis, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Olive-Harvey College.

The rapid growth of popular Protestantism has heightened the concerns of the Roman Catholic hierarchies in this region of the world.

Any information that we have today of the existence of Spanish sixteenth century reformers we owe to a faceless man, Luis de Usoz (1805–1865).

Drama–at the theater but also in movies, books, TV–is a modern religious mechanism.

A review of Nick Spencer’s The Evolution of The West: How Christianity Has Shaped Our Values.

The traditional terms are replaced by BCE – Before Common Era, and CE – Common Era. Using the traditional form does not offend Jews, says one of its leaders in the UK.