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It is known that the death of Jesus Christ occurred somewhere between AD 30 and AD 33. But how exactly did he die?

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The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of ...

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We go into this holy weekend with freedoms that the world has never known,” reads a department-wide email from Scott Turner’s chief of staff.

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