Holy Week is the holiest week of the Greek Orthodox Church, symbolizing the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Scores of plants mentioned in ancient religious texts also thrive in San Diego’s climate, with its Mediterranean-like weather ...

King James VI & I has long been traduced as an effeminate, slobbering fool. But 400 years after his death, history is being ...

Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

Archaeologists have discovered 2,000-year-old plant remains under the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, possibly identifying the ...

Genesis 3 suggests that eating the fruit from the Tree of Life gave eternal life. After the Fall, God prevented access to the tree by posting two cherubs at the entrance to the garden. Humans should ...

Archaeologists may have found the garden near Jesus' burial site, uncovering 2,000-year-old olive and grape remains under Jerusalem's sacred church.

Year C in the lectionary, Palm Sunday is cancelled, so you need to do away with your palm crosses, and change the choice of ...

"A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the man working the vineyard, ‘See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit ...

Shortly before returning to his home in the Vatican on Sunday, Pope Francis made a brief appearance from a fifth-floor balcony of the Gemelli Clinic in Rome to a crowd of faithful gathered outside ...

In the Bible, fig trees symbolize “blessings ... because there are no enemies to expropriate the fruits at harvest time (Mi 4:4). The fig tree is not only useful for its fruits. The fruit, leaves, and ...