Israel's Foreign Ministry is establishing a dedicated group headed by its special envoy to the Christian world to prepare for ...

Israel has begun its preparations for the 2,000th anniversary of the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, which will be marked in 2030.

The Bible repeatedly and undeniably connects baptism to redemption and salvation. It also closely identifies baptism and justification. Recently, I realized this all the more, in answering a ...

Baptism is one of the most well-known rituals in Christianity. But what are the origins of this ritual? Did John the Baptist ...

In arguing for the resurrection, Paul puts forward a strange argument in the paragraph in 1 Corinthians 15.29-34: Otherwise, ...

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