This morning, Pope Leo received more than 300 representatives of associations and movements that took part in the 2024 “Arena ...

Archaeologists believe the Last Supper took place in the 'Upper Room' of a two-story house in Jerusalem with limestone walls ...

The house where the last supper possibly occurred is still standing in Jerusalem 2,000 years later — according to ...

For Christians, the notion of the Holy Land first has a value of heritage. The use of this notion dates back to the biblical scholar Origen in the 3rd Century and then extends to the 5th Century.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...

First Mongol incursions in the Levant, in 1260. Credit: Map Master / Rowanwindwhistler / Wikimedia Commons ... Thus, the Ilkhanate became the absolute master of the Holy Land. However, the situation ...

Reuters reports that Manger Square in front of the Church of the Nativity is deserted, its souvenir shops closed against the rockets and rifles that now festoon the Holy Land in place of the ...

A look at some of the precious treats at the world’s biggest book fair Visitors to SIBF can read a digital version of the Holy Quran transcribed in Kufic script on gazelle parchment paper.

Clark has made 15 trips to the Holy Land since his first as a new pastor in the 1980s. At first, he was enthralled, he said. Yet Clark quickly grew disenchanted by commercial tours that focused on ...

an ancient kingdom of traders in the Negev desert who converted to Christianity in the fourth century. OUR LAND. The first Christian writer to mention the term “holy land” was Justin Martyr in ...

leaving the posts vacant for the first time since the 1920s. Last week, the pair closed out what were supposed to be 10-year terms that had been extended a year due to internal politicking that ...

BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK – The escalating conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories often brings focus on the tensions between Judaism and Islam, the two majority religions in the region.