All around the planet hun­dreds of mil­lions of peo­ple are wait­ing for events to unfold in the year 2012, that they… believe will bring either the birth of a har­mo­nious new real­ity… or ‘the end of the world.

At first glance, the fox on the sur­face of the lime­stone pil­lar appears to be a trick of the bright sun­light. But as I move closer to the large, T-shaped mega­lith, I find it is carved with an improb­a­ble menagerie. A bull and a crane join the fox in an ani­mal parade etched across the sur­face of the pil­lar, one […]

All who try to find in the New Tes­ta­ment the story of what hap­pened in Jesus’ life between the ages of 12 and 30 are inevitably sorely dis­ap­pointed.  Those years are not cov­ered.  Two promi­nent Catholic schol­ars at George­town Uni­ver­sity con­firm this in JESUS IN INDIA. Catholics call that period of Jesus’ life “The Miss­ing Years” or “The Hid­den Years.” New […]

Syra­cuse, NY — The Bible con­tains few verses about the time Jesus and his fam­ily spent in Egypt—fleeing King Herod’s mur­der­ous vow to kill all baby boys, to the family’s weary jour­ney through the Sinai Desert and even­tual return to Pales­tine (Mat. 2:14). But what really hap­pened dur­ing Jesus’ five years in Egypt? Can evi­dence sep­a­rate fact from speculation?What sto­ries of […]