Connecticut's Holy Land USA is a crumbling hodgepodge of biblical settings that was also the site of a grisly 2010 murder; a ...

A shopkeeper waits for tourists Nov. 10, 2023, as other souvenir shops are closed in Jerusalem's Old City amid the ...

A lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.' 2 Peter 1:19We came to the Holy Land, this Jubilee Year, as pilgrims of hope. We came in hope that a ...

Israeli soldiers, seen from the Israel’s side of the border with Gaza, stand on a tank ahead of a ceasefire agreement between ...

JERUSALEM — Hope, the theme chosen by Pope Francis for Jubilee 2025, is in short supply in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza ...

Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed cautious optimism this week that pilgrims will be able to return to the region ...

And for Abrahamic faiths, that war leaks out of the spiritual realm into geopolitical battlefields — places with embassies ... freshly dead in the land called holy, remind us that we’re ...

Early in the fourth century, the emperor Constantine sent an imperial delegation to the Holy Land to identify places associated with the life of Christ and hallow them with churches and shrines.

Credit: Marinella Bandini In light of this, the Catholic ordinaries of the Holy Land issued a special message to local Christians encouraging them to embark on pilgrimages to the jubilee sites in ...

it is considered to be a holy site, where they believe Prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven from Jerusalem. Arab Muslims conquered the Holy Land in 638. The Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque ...