This year’s Easter celebrations in the Holy Land are expected to unfold under a complex and emotional landscape as war ...

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

Others, deep in thought, gaze at St. Peter’s Basilica as Cardinal Mauro Gambetti leads the rosary for ... made of wood and zinc, and Farrell will sprinkle the body with holy water.

The photos showed him in a wooden casket ... at attention as Farrell blessed Francis with holy water, the pope’s hands clasped around a rosary. The pope's formal apartments in the Apostolic ...

I knew he had gone to the Holy Land to study and pray there so that his artwork would be more realistic, and you see that in some of the paintings that were chosen for this series. But I also ...

Pope Francis died Monday, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for ...

Many attendants were observed crying and holding rosary beads. Hundreds of nuns ... the Christian communities in Israel - the Holy Land - on the loss of their great spiritual father, His Holiness ...

The leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa ... on an elevated bier in the basilica. Rather, the wooden coffin will be placed facing the pews.

Here's the latest: Vatican holds its first public commemoration The Vatican has begun a Rosary prayer in St ... leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa ...

The 88-year-old, who died on Easter Monday, was pictured lying in a wooden coffin dressed in red, with rosary beads draped ... who had travelled to Rome for Holy Week has spoken of the sombre ...