As Advent approached, Pope Francis gave a small fragment of Jesus' crib back to Catholics in the Holy Land. At the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome Nov. 22, experts from the Vatican Museums extracted ...
It all began in 1948. Exhausted by the Second World War and tired of maintaining their worldwide empire, the British left Palestine, which they had governed, and the United Nations had to decide what was ...
The Vatican reiterated its call for a two-state solution in the Holy Land after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the United States would no longer recognize the illegality of Israeli settlements in the ...
The many churches in and around Jerusalem provide ample opportunities for pilgrimage, walking the path of Christ
If I had a penny for every time my spiritual director over the years has told me “all things Christ,” I would be a very rich woman indeed. Even after all the years of meeting ...
As we celebrate Christmas this year, perhaps the world can draw some hope from the goings-on in Bethlehem. We’re not talking about the nativity of Our Lord that took place in that holy city 2,000 ...
As dusk began to fade into evening, the lobby of the Notre Dame Center of Jerusalem filled with guests — some trudging in with their suitcases arriving from the airport, others returning from a full ...
Tucked away behind Nativity Square, not far from the Church of the Nativity that, according to Christian tradition, marks the spot where Jesus was born in the manger, is the Milk Grotto. This is the ...
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