The traditional story has Jesus going to Jerusalem at the time of the festival of Passover. Passover is one of the two most important Jewish Holy Days or festivals in the entire year. On the one ...

In Jerusalem this would have meant thousands of lambs being slaughtered all at one time ... John's gospel has Jesus hanging on the cross while the lambs are being slaughtered for passover.

Some of these include: Jesus has made arrangements in advance to celebrate the Passover in Jerusalem. Jesus was born and brought up Jewish, so it is natural that he should want to remember this ...

The appointed reading for the 1st Sunday of Christmas in many Christian places of worship is about an event when Jesus is 12 years old and is lost.

As so often in the past, the latest scenes of violence at ... the first time that the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and the week-long Jewish holiday of Passover coincided in three decades, there ...

The parents of Jesus went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. And when the feast was ended, as they were returning ...

Friday marks the beginning of a special time ... in Egypt. Passover happens every year during the month of Nisan on the ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis will be under a complete lockdown beginning on Tuesday through at least Friday to stem the spread of the coronavirus during the Passover holiday. Israeli Prime ...

Each year Jews celebrate the Passover festival. This is a festival which remembers the escape of the ancient Israelites from Egypt. Jesus and his disciples were celebrating the Passover meal together.

Reuters Christians believe Jesus was crucified ... Tensions have been high in Jerusalem in recent days, during which Easter has overlapped with the Jewish holiday of Passover and the Islamic ...