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 ...

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 ...

Bethlehem is an important center in the history of Christianity, but Christians make up only a small percentage of the roughly 14 million people spread across the Holy Land.

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

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 ...

For the second straight year, Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations will be somber and muted, in deference to war in Gaza.

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 ...

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 ...