Now that stonemasons have worked on the headstones, Jewish and Christian volunteers have begun cleaning up the cemetery. Next week the volunteers will begin work on the Muslim cemetery, and following that, a Jewish burial ground on the mount.
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Archeologists in Nazareth say a first century house discovered in the 1880s could be the home of Mary and Joseph where Jesus was brought up.
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In addition to the names of martyrs, quotations from the Old and New Testaments as well as numerous Latin crosses are carved on the mountain. The total length of the inscriptions is one kilometer (0.62 miles).
Archaeologists have announced they may have uncovered the precise location of Jesus’s trial, and it’s not along the traditional Via Dolorosa path.
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The Moscow Patriarchate has called for an end to attacks on Orthodox churches in Ukraine.