Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

Among the many expressions of the Church in the Holy Land, the Hebrew-speaking Catholic community is the smallest. It comprises about a thousand Catholic faithful living in Israel, immersed in a ...

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL R. Shlomo Pereira. 1218 The Poet’s Pilgrimage: Yehudah al-Harizi’s Journey to the Land of Israel. In 1218, when the renowned Hebrew poet a ...

To the editor: Despite being beset by disputes for thousands of years, the Holy Land came to be a place of peace and respect among the diverse peoples who populated it. Pilgrims from all over the ...

JERUSALEM — Following two years of subdued Christmas celebrations due to the ongoing Hamas-Israel war, this year the holiday ...

During the month of April in Jerusalem, the major holidays of the three major religions — Christian Easter, Jewish Passover, and the month of Ramadan — passed with an almost total absence of pilgrims ...

A bucket list item for many travelers around the world is to pay a visit to religious sites and monuments in Israel and Palestine, otherwise known as the Holy Land. But since the war between Israel ...

Those policies would run contrary to international law, according to United Nations officials and leading Western powers. Ben Gvir’s airing of those goals has drawn criticism from President Joe ...

Cardinal Pizzaballa’s visit will commence on Dec. 4 with another fundraising event hosted by the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of ...