Crucifixion

Shocking images of animal cruelty have emerged from the island of Kefalonia, where an unknown perpetrator killed a fox, strapped it to two pieces of wood shaped like a crucifix and then hung it from a tree near a main road.

The gruesome spectacle was spotted by a local resident, who published photographs of it on social media.

Today is Good Friday for the Orthodox world.

This day is a memory of the sufferings, unjust judgment, crucifixion and death on the cross of Jesus Christ. These events form the basis of today's special church services.

In the morning, the Holy Shroud is taken out for worship, which symbolizes the position in the Savior's grave.

A Spanish archaeologist whose staggering discoveries included one of the earliest representations of the crucifixion and proof that the written Basque language was centuries older than previously thought has been found guilty of faking the finds.

The saga began in June 2006 when Eliseo Gil presented artefacts excavated from the Roman town of Veleia, near the Basque city of Vitoria.

The Easter Christ is showing us is the celebration of forgiveness, let us call brothers too the ones who hate us, on Sunday urged the Patriarch of The Romanian Orthodox Church, Daniel, in his word voiced at the service of the Resurrection at the Patriarchal Cathedral. "This light is the Light of the Holy Easter.

Turkish police have seized a 13th-century painting depicting the crucifixion of Jesus, security sources said on Feb. 19.

As the sun beats down on the barren slopes around Jerusalem, a tree of the kind believed to have provided the crown of thorns in Biblical accounts of Jesus Christ's crucifixion stands unaffected, its fruits ample and foliage green.

A Christian college student has been suspended after allegedly challenging his Muslim professor’s claims that Jesus wasn’t crucified and that his disciples did not think he was God.

The Islamic State (IS/Daesh) crucified an Indian Christian Catholic priest on Good Friday, according to the Washington Times. Reverend Thomas Uzhunnalil was working for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity and was kidnapped in a raid in Yemen earlier this month.

Sentenced to death as a minor, Saudi Ali Muhammed al-Nimr is now facing “death by crucifiction”. His crime? Participating in anti-government protests in his hometown of Qatif in Saudi Arabia’s Shiite populated East province in February 2012, during the Arab Spring movement.

Today Orthodox Christians mark the day of the Holy Cross called in Bulgaria "Krastovden".

The Orthodox Church pays homage to the Holy Cross of Jesus Christ with a water blessing ceremony.

Thousands of believers gather in churches to see the Holy Cross which the priests raise above their heads for everyone to see hence the name of the feast - the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.