And other news from Christians around the world. A team of scientists germinated a millennia-old seed from the archaeological excavation of a cave in the Judean desert. They grew it in an Israeli ...

For 14 years, scientists have been growing a tree akin to the Judean balsam — the source of the balm of Gilead — but with no modern counterpart. For 14 years, scientists have been growing a tree akin ...

In Birmingham, an innovative program combines hospice care, traditional medicine, and faith to comfort the terminally ill. As I arrived at the Balm of Gilead, a palliative-care unit on the fourth ...

Last week the U. S. House of Representatives devoted an afternoon to discussing asthma, its cause and cure. Said Congressman Frederick Cleveland Smith of Ohio: “Mr. Chairman, at Mount Gilead, Ohio, is ...

The usual sullen calm lay last week over the Biblical lands of Gilead, Moab and Ammon where King David once fought Absalom and where the British Crown now rules the mandated territory of Transjordan.