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Italian researchers and experts have new answers about how Jesus looked as a human. This research is based on a study of the Shroud of Turin, a 14-foot linen cloth believed to be what Jesus’ body was wrapped in before He was put in the tomb. The shroud is also believed to be imprinted with…

A project is now underway to rid the area surrounding Jesus’ baptism site of thousands of land mines. The explosive devices remain left over from past Mideast conflicts, and have been surrounding the holy site for nearly five decades. Land mines are scattered all across Israel’s war territory, but particular emphasis has been placed on…

No one, be they an individual or an organization, seems to be able to take to social media without causing a serious backlash at least once. Currently, Twitter seems to be the preferred method for creating a PR firestorm, and Planned Parenthood continued that trend last week.  The organization came under fire after posting a…

Catholics everywhere were up in arms when the Italian leftest newspaper La Repubblica reported that Pope Francis said in an interview that there was no hell. The paper quoted the Pope saying “hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of the souls of sinners exists.” Furthermore, the paper quoted Pope Francis making other wild claims such describing…

A woman in Florida is filing a federal lawsuit after board members at her condominium complex told her that she could not host Bible studies or play worship music in the common area. First Liberty Institute, a religious liberty law firm who is representing the woman, sent a letter to Housing and Urban Development Secretary…

Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980, but this human rights advocate will get the last word. Romero is set to be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. Romero’s official canonization was stalled by two previous Popes who felt that the champion of the poor had been too political…

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