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

JERUSALEM (AP) — On the Saturday before Easter ... In 1834 a frenzied stampede broke out in the darkened church, and the ruler of the Holy Land at the time barely escaped after his guards ...

The sixth word Christ utters from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake. “It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until ...

At a joint seminar in India, experts push for a nexus approach to land ... "During Holy Week, the church should be focused on reflecting on Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, instead of advancing ...

Gustavo Morello, Boston College Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many associate those celebrations with church services, processions, candles, ...

Thousands of pilgrims joined the annual Stations of the Cross procession in the old town of Jerusalem as Christians around ...

After the Sign of the Cross at the beginning of Mass ... At the period of the Judges in Israel, an angel appears to Gideon and greets him with these words: “The Lord be with you, O man of ...

Thousands of pilgrims have joined the annual Stations of the Cross procession in the old ... the Franciscan Order and Custodian of the Holy Land, Israel only allowed 6000 Christians from the ...

Thousands of pilgrims joined the annual Stations of the Cross procession in the old ... of the Franciscan Order and Custodian of the Holy Land, Israel only allowed 6,000 Christians from the ...