A look at the main events scheduled for Pope Benedict XVI’s first visit to the Holy Land: – May 8: Arrives from Rome at Jordan’s Queen Alia airport in Amman. Benedict will visit a Christian ...

Witness the majestic beauty of Saudi Arabia, home to the two holiest mosques in Islam—Masjid al-Haram in Makkah and Al-Masjid ...

“Jordan is also holy land. Jesus was here — at the site of the baptism,” the nuncio said. “In Jordan, we have important holy places for Christians, such as Mount Nebo or Machaerus.

Nothing in this world—outside of God—is intrinsically holy, not even the Land of Israel. Holiness is a status earned through just and moral behavior.

Palestinian American Mufid Abdulqader was released after serving nearly two decades in US prison in a controversial terrorism case known as the Holy Land Five, which civil liberties groups argue ...

Amid an intensive archeological survey to retrieve biblical treasures before antiquity looters, a rare 2,000-year-old Hebrew coin was located in the heart of ancient Israel.

A coalition of advocacy groups have called for the release of the Holy Land Five, a group of Palestinian-American men who were convicted of funding terrorism in a case civil liberties groups say ...

THE WAY OF THE CROSS. Only in the Holy Land can you celebrate Jesus’ death and resurrection in the place where it happened. The fourth-century pilgrim Egeria described the Holy Week services in ...

JERUSALEM — Advent has crept in quietly this year in the Holy Land. It has been stripped away from the usual trappings of Christmas, which normally are impossible to resist either here in ...

Bishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, who became the first resident nuncio to Jordan one year ago, says the Church there is “active” and “rich in vocations.” ...