The Holy Land Coordination, a delegation from international bishops’ conferences, landed in the Holy Land for a five-day ...

The Associated Press Top Catholic cleric in Holy Land arrives in Bethlehem Posted: December 24, 2024 | Last updated: December 24, 2024 Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa visited Bethlehem on ...

Bethlehem has never been a peaceful place ... Christmases like this one, with 45,000 freshly dead in the land called holy, remind us that we’re out of our depths. If our Christmas celebration ...

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

Friar Ibrahim Faltas, vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, in Bethlehem, West Bank, Dec. 24, 2024. (credit: Giorgia Valente/The Media Line) Faltas expressed similar fears. “The paradox is that ...

Shibly Kando stands in his shop Jothour of Kando in Bethlehem, West Bank, which was scheduled to open in mid-October of 2023. When Israel was attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, he paused all ...

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

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

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 ...

we Christians of the Holy Land are offered a pilgrimage to three ... The tradition of being an artisan in Bethlehem is being threatened by the flight of young people from the area and the ongoing ...

Bethlehem has effectively become “an open ... Previously, she guided pilgrims throughout the Holy Land, from Galilee to Jerusalem. But when the war escalated, her incoming groups plummeted.