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 ...

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

Paradoxically, the post-ceasefire period in Gaza has been even more difficult to endure for our columnist Marie-Armelle ...

“In Bethlehem there is shown the cave where [Jesus] was born.” Early in the fourth century, the emperor Constantine sent an imperial delegation to the Holy Land to identify places associated ...

Despite ongoing conflict in the Holy Land and economic hardship, Bethlehem University remains a beacon of peace and ...

Her words resonate as we drive along the West Bank wall on the edges of Bethlehem. A stark reminder of the political divide that is tearing through the Holy Land. On the other side of the wall ...

The custos serves as a unique provincial minister within the Franciscan order, leading a community of friars while also being ...

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

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. There are about ...

On Bethlehem's Manger Square, Christmas decorations and pilgrims are notably absent for a second wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city. The Church of the Nativity that ...

Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed cautious optimism this week that pilgrims will be able to return to the region amid a new ceasefire and hostage release agreement in Gaza, which is ...

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. There are about ...