The Purim story begins about 900 years after the Exodus from Egypt, in what is now Iran, history repeats itself. The Jews had been living in Israel continually, since they first entered with Joshua.

In 41 BC, Cleopatra hosted a dinner to celebrate the Roman leader Mark Antony, who was a well-known party animal. Twelve ...

According to the Bible, ancient Israel was, in whole or part, ruled by kings for less than five hundred years. David is ...

God had promised this elderly man that he would not pass away until he had seen the King of kings and on the day that Mary ...

“I wouldn’t say I’m on the Gordon Ramsay-level yet, but sometimes bartenders will see me walking in, and say: ‘Oh, the ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Court records say a passenger on a small regional flight to Miami attacked a flight attendant, kicked and punched the seat of the person in front of him and swallowed rosary beads ...

Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at ...

“There’s no democracy in Markham.” That was Kimberly Seymour’s first reaction after Markham council voted 9-3 to approve the Baha’i Temple project on Feb. 25. A proposal to build a national Baha’i ...

Weekly sermon summaries for local and area churches.