JERUSALEM – Israel witnessed a spectacular series of archeological discoveries in 2023 that revealed the presence of Jesus and the Jewish people's more than 2,000 years of unbroken presence in the ...

After her pilgrimage to the Holy Land, St. Helena brought fragments of the True Cross, the cross on which Jesus died. A fragment on the True Cross on which Jesus was condemned to death. (photo: Daniel ...

The central bureau of statistics in Jerusalem reported there were 4.5 million tourists who traveled to Israel in the year 2019. Considering the total population of Israel is 9 million people and the ...

Franciscan Father Francesco Ielpo, custos of the Holy Land, urged pilgrims to return not only as an opportunity to be where ...

Palestinian Christians attend Palm Sunday Mass in a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza City, Sunday, April 9, 2023. (Credit: Fatima Shbair/AP.) Listen ROME – Christian leaders in the Holy Land have called ...

On Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, Christians participated in the traditional procession marking the beginning of Holy Week with palm and olive branches — one of the most significant events for the ...

During the Crusades, the order’s knights were charged with protecting significant Christian sites in the Holy Land and ...

Having attended Catholic school for my entire life, I can remember my eyes drifting around my classrooms during particularly uninteresting lessons. A good portion of the time, my drifting eyes would ...

"Good Friday is a bleak day for penance and remembering Christ’s sacrifice" IN JUST 55 days, on April 5, Christians ...