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 ...

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 ...

Israel’s war against Hamas, which began when the terrorist group launched a surprise attack on Israel Oct. 7, continued to rage throughout October and November before an extended truce began this week ...

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 ...

VISITING Palestinian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin has urged predominantly Catholic ...

US organizations support Palestinian Christians’ call to Take a Stand for the Holy Land WASHINGTON — Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace, Churches for Middle East Peace, and Friends of Sabeel ...

In Israel, a land torn by decades of conflict, another kind of violence takes place in the shadows: sexual violence, affecting both sides of the political divide. Noam Friedman Raz smiles for a photo.

As the cardinals of the Catholic Church prepare to gather in conclave for the election of a successor to Pope Francis, various issues facing the Vatican are on their minds, one of which is likely to ...

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 ...

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...

The Best Private Tours in Israel give you a one-of-a-kind, personalised trip that does more than just show you the sights and really shows you what this diverse country is all about. You can see ...