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The Healing of the Paralytic – one of the oldest known depictions of Jesus, [ 18 ] from the Syrian city of Dura Europos, dating from about 235. Initially Jesus was represented indirectly by pictogram symbols such as the ichthys (fish), the peacock, or an anchor (the Labarum or Chi-Rho was a later development).
Then a bomb was detonated outside the St. John's Roman Catholic Church targeting Christmas service worshippers, killing 27 and injuring 56. [ 50 ] In 2014, during the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive , the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS) ordered all Christians in the area of its control, where the Iraqi Army collapsed, to pay a special tax of ...
The race and appearance of Jesus, widely accepted by researchers to be a Judean from Galilee, [1] has been a topic of discussion since the days of early Christianity. Various theories about the race of Jesus have been proposed and debated. [2][3] By the Middle Ages, a number of documents, generally of unknown or questionable origin, had been ...
Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from the material. They used a computer program to reverse the aging process. After reducing his jaw ...
The Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral in Baghdad ( Arabic: كاتدرائية سيدة النجاة) is a Cathedral of the Syriac or Antiochian Catholic Church located in Baghdad, Iraq. [1] The current bishop is Archbishop Yousif Abba and the cathedral is 380 meters from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Nareg. The church was subject of attack by ISIS in ...
The Great Mosque of al-Mansur (Arabic: جامع المنصور, romanized: Djāmiʿ al-Manṣūr) was the chief Friday mosque of Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate. When the Moroccan scholar and explorer, Ibn Battutah visited the city in 1327, he reported the mosque as still standing, but it disappeared at a later, unknown date; no trace of ...
The Green Dome (Arabic: ٱَلْقُبَّة ٱلْخَضْرَاء, romanized: al-Qubbah al-Khaḍrāʾ, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [al.ɡʊb.ba al.xadˤ.ra]) is a green-coloured dome built above the tombs of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the early Rashidun Caliphs Abu Bakr (r. 632–634) and Omar (r. 634–644), which used to be the ...
Fallen Iraqi soldiers. The Victory Arch (Arabic: قوس النصر, romanized: Qaws an-Naṣr), [1][2] officially known as the Swords of Qādisīyah, and popularly called the Hands of Victory or the Crossed Swords, are a pair of triumphal arches in central Baghdad, Iraq. Each arch consists of a pair of outstretched hands holding crossed swords.