Speaking just hours after his wartime Christmas visit to Gaza City Holy Family Parish, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, delivered a poignant Christmas message during a ...

The Associated Press recently claimed that President-elect Trump’s nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, had tattoos supposedly connected with Christian nationalism and even white ...

The Edward and Helen Mardigian Armenian Museum seeks to preserve 1,700 years of Armenian presence in the Holy Land. The museum has a collection of ecclesiastic vessels, including crosses and miters, ...

Holy Week in the Holy Land is unfolding in unprecedented silence, as war-related restrictions have left sacred sites largely without the faithful. Israeli authorities, citing security concerns amid ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revoked a ban that prevented the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and holding services. The decision came hours ...

The Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023 and the Israeli response to it has “plunged” the Holy Land “into a vortex of violence and hatred never seen or experienced before,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Historic Christian churches representing the predominantly Arab Christian community and mostly U.S. evangelicals who support Israel are at odds with each other. JERUSALEM (RNS) — ...

Mosaic of Jesus on the dome ceiling of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Israel. Easter and Passover will bring many thousands of tourists and pilgrims to Israel, as travel to the Holy ...

March 29 (UPI) --Israeli police blocked Jerusalem's top Catholic leaders from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a centuries-old tradition to mark Palm Sunday. The Latin Patriarchate in ...

A Roman fountain and Byzantine pools, hiding in plain sight on the outskirts of the capital.

The Syriac Orthodox Church, which now has just north of 2,000 members between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, personifies how ...

Following outcry from political and religious leaders for barring Catholic leaders in the Holy Land from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, Israeli authorities apologized and ...