Figures and messengers from Abrahamic faiths — angels, prophets, and celestial beings.
Virgin Mary: Faith, Courage, Hope Who She Is & Her Story Meet Mary of Nazareth, known as the Virgin Mary in Christianity and Maryam in Islam. She lived in first‑century Galilee, in Roman times. The story begins with an encounter. The angel Gabriel announces that she will bear a child through the Holy Spirit, meaning […]
Who They Are & Their Story When people say “the Holy Spirit,” they usually mean the divine Spirit in the Abrahamic traditions, with different meanings in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The idea reaches back to the ancient Near East. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is ruach—breath, wind, or spirit—appearing as ruach Elohim in Genesis […]
Who They Are & Their Story When people say “angels,” they’re referring to supernatural messengers of God described across Jewish, Christian, and Islamic sources. The English word comes from Greek angelos, “messenger.” In Hebrew the term is mal’akh, and in Arabic, malak, with the plural mala’ika. The earliest biblical references, as preserved in the Hebrew […]