A suicide bomber in Syria on Sunday detonated himself inside a Greek Orthodox church filled with people during afternoon Mass ...

Jesus "took on flesh" so He could die for our sins and then return to a purely spiritual existence. But the incarnation ...

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Yet the focus of conversation is Netanyahu – Prime Minister for the third time and the longest-serving PM in the nation’s history – now revealed as a bold war leader who seems incapable of mobilising ...

Most are written by the apostle Paul, known as Saul before his conversion ... He had been on the way to Damascus in Syria (chapter 9 of Acts) to arrest any Christians he could find and bring ...

Paul (at this time his name was still Saul) was traveling to Damascus in order to bound Christians and bring them to Jerusalem (verse 2). The distance between these two cities was roughly 150 miles.

On the road to Damascus, Saul of Tarsus, who we would later come to know as St. Paul, saw a blinding light and from it heard the voice of Christ who asked, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting ...

On his way to Damascus, Syria, however ... From that moment on, Saul (later called Paul) devoted himself to the Apostolic mission. Among the places where early Christians fled for safety from ...

And it was on that "road to Damascus" that Saul/Paul was struck blind and converted to be a follower of Jesus, and began his life as a missionary in Antioch, Syria. And when the Holy Bible was put ...