Across the world, Easter is one of the most revered and widely celebrated events in the Christian calendar. Commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead after His crucifixion, Easter ...

In fact, he impels Jews to take part in pagan sacrifices and eat non-kosher food. In the Temple, Antiochus sets up an idol of Zeus, the "abomination of desolation" (1:54). Mattathias, a zealous ...

The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD under the Roman emperor Constantine approved the official "doctrine" of Christianity as a State religion. One of the things Constantine did at the Council of Nicaea, ...