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After Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, did he “Descend into Hell,” as millions of Christians recite during weekly church services in The Apostles’ Creed? Nearly 2,000 years of Christian ...

Archeologists believe they found the Jesus' Holy Grail cup underneath the Jordanian Treasury, the incredible building used as the temple in the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in an "awesome ...

On Holy Thursday, Jesus celebrated the Last Supper, prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, and was arrested. On Good Friday, Jesus was sentenced to death, crucified and died on the cross.

While in Jesus’ time the Church lay outside of Jerusalem, the expansion of the city over the following centuries meant that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was swallowed up by the metropolis.

Palm Sunday, the first celebration observed during Holy Week, honors Jesus Christ's last days on earth. Here's what to know about it.

On Holy Thursday, Jesus celebrates the Last Supper, prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, and was arrested. On Good Friday, Jesus was sentenced to death, crucified and died on the cross.

The Church remembers Christ’s suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus in a spiritual and sacramental way during Holy Week and the Easter Triduum, but some people actually experience the ...

I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he ...