(RNS) — This weekend marks the Christian holy day of Pentecost and the Jewish holy day Shavuot. Both involve 'gifts,' but not the kind that come with bows. Let us ’Splain ... Pentecost Sunday (May 20) ...

Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah... most non-Jewish people have at least a vague idea of what those Jewish holidays commemorate, celebrate or honor. But how about Shavuot, the "Feast of Weeks?" ...

This weekend brings another one of those joining of holy days for both Christians and Jews, in the festivals of Shavuot and Pentecost, which share a common heritage. For our Jewish friends, Shavuot is ...

Pentecost depiction of Bible with dove as the Holy Spirit Pentecost is a celebration that some Christians observe each year. While it always takes place after Easter, the fluctuation of the date ...

I am spending this Pentecost Sunday at Auschwitz, where my journalist husband is working on a story. This past week, instead of the Christian Pentecost, I celebrated the original Jewish Pentecostal ...

All around the country and, specifically in the city of Baltimore, people are celebrating the Feast of Pentecost (Shavuot). Pentecost is believed by most evangelicals and mainline denominations to be ...

This Sunday, the Church concludes her celebration of the Easter Season with the high feast of Pentecost. The word literally means “the 50th day,” since it marks the 50th day since the Resurrection of ...

Next weekend, the western Christian churches will celebrate Pentecost, one of their major feasts. Pentecost commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. The narrative of this event ...

Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah ... most non-Jewish people have at least a vague idea of what those commemorate, celebrate or honor. But how about Shavuot, the "Feast of Weeks?" Shavuot, which means ...

Verse 1 of Chapter 2 Acts in the King James Version reads: "When the day of Pentecost was fully come...." In the older Catholic version: "When the days of Pentecost were fully accomplished....." To ...