Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, called on Christians in the Holy Land to “hope against ...

Pope Francis has designated 2025 a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, and NJ travel agencies hope a fragile ceasefire in ...

The Way of the Cross of the Catholic schools in Jerusalem takes place every year during Lent and was led by Father Francis Patton, Custodian of the Holy Land, and Father Ibrahim Faltas, Vicar of the ...

Catholic priests in Israel and Gaza have expressed hope for the restoration of peace in the region amid reports of increased ...

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, is facing a wave of accusations that ...

The report revealed a climate of hostility that, according to one of the study’s authors, Federica Sasso, only represents ...

And although churches are always a powerful place to be, they become that much more special on Palm Sunday—especially when ...

For the second year in a row, few foreign pilgrims were in attendance at the traditional Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives into the Old City of Jerusalem due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas ...

A Jerusalem Voice for Justice released a statement expressing solidarity with the Palestinians suffering in Gaza and the West ...

A crown of thorns is pictured on a table draped in purple during Lent at Jesus the Good Shepherd Church in Dunkirk, Maryland, in a photo taken in April 2022. The Good Friday collection for the Holy ...

Nothing in this world—outside of God—is intrinsically holy, not even the Land of Israel. Holiness is a status earned through just and moral behavior. It can be lost when people’s actions ...