The man known as Jesus wasn’t called “Jesus” in his own time. His real name in Aramaic reveals a history of translation, language, and lost sounds ...

Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according ...

Graffiti daubed in mud and ashes on a ritual bath from the Second Temple era in Jerusalem have been excavated in the course of preparations for construction of a school. Whenever construction projects ...

Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used. The town is also home to Syria's two oldest active monasteries. But ...

BERLIN — Jesus spoke Aramaic. It was his mother tongue and 2,000 years ago it was the main language throughout the Middle ...

Some 120,000 Christians in Germany speak Aramaic, thought to be the language spoken by Jesus Christ. Efforts are underway to keep the language alive. The Syriac Orthodox Mor Petrus & Paulus ...

I recently had an opportunity to go on a trip to Israel and the Holy Land with the Philos Project. Philos (which means “friend” in Greek) is a venture started by Robert Nicholson and the Rev. Luke ...