The biblical Book of Acts recounts Saul of Tarsus experiencing a blinding vision of Jesus while traveling on the road to Damascus

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Canterbury Cathedral holds an annual early-autumn service where hops are blessed and Morris dancers perform by the altar

Imbolc, also observed as St. Brigid's Day and Candlemass, is an early February ritual marking the approach of spring

Henry Shukman's mother worked as an academic and served as an ordained priest

Indy Austin's parents were members of The Move, a non-denominational Christian group founded in the 1960s centered on the belief that the end times were imminent

Queen Elizabeth I established a broad Protestant religious settlement for the Church of England following King Henry VIII's Reformation

In the 1530s, King Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church in Rome to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn

During the English Civil Wars in the 1640s, different Protestant factions disputed whether the English Reformation had progressed far enough

James Talarico's grandfather served as a Baptist preacher

James Talarico enrolled as a Christian seminary student preparing to become a minister

Methuselah is recorded in the biblical Book of Genesis as the longest-lived human figure

Former Liberian warlord Milton Blahyi renounced violence and became an evangelical Christian preacher

The Vatican announced Pope Leo's lung cancer diagnosis on a Tuesday

Christian views on the death penalty are diverse and complex

The Catholic Church, the world's largest Christian body, officially opposes the death penalty

Andrew T. Walker cited the Bible's Deuteronomy 13:11 to support the deterrent effect of public executions

Pope Leo XIV wrote that the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person

The Western obsession with the Holy Land is rooted in the history of Christianity, beginning with Emperor Constantine the Great

Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great, built the first Church of the Holy Sepulchre on the site she identified as Jesus's tomb

Constantine the Great's mother, Helena, established a sacred Christian itinerary in Jerusalem after claiming to find the relics of Jesus's crucifixion

A key passage from the book of Ecclesiastes states, "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong... but time and chance happeneth to them all."