The sense of hollowness of the Church of the Nativity is deeper than absent tourists. The chants and prayers are pain-stricken and desperate. Down in the manger by the enshrined spot where baby ...

The Vatican called on Catholic bishops worldwide to make the Good Friday Collection a pastoral priority. The annual ...

A Christian leader from the Holy Land has appealed to UK parliamentarians, calling for a "courageous spirit of leadership" to ...

The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem is leading a campaign to renovate and modernize dozens of schools in ...

While anchored in the hope that comes from Jesus' resurrection, Catholics should not forget the "tears, despair and ...

On Mount Ebal, in the West Bank, archaeologist Adam Zertal (pointing) believes he has found the altar that Joshua built on Moses' instructions, a finding that other archaeologists have challenged.

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction. Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy ...

Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

Artists from the Holy Land will be at the Hartwell Art Center Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 to showcase and sell ...

Hundreds of worshippers, both Palestinians and foreigners, attended the Midnight Mass at the Church of Nativity in the West Bank. The regular cheering was absent, and no Christmas tree or ...

“Baby of Bethlehem” (also known as “Singing in the Land”) is an African-American spiritual that was also included in the same 1953 volume of Ruth Crawford Seeger’s American Folk Songs ...

Bishop William Shomali, Patriarchal Vicar for Jerusalem and Palestine, gave a moving account on the situation of Christians in the Holy Land at Bloomsbury Baptist Church in London on Monday. The ...