“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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In other words, the land becomes holy only when the people live according to God’s will as embodied in the moral commandments, fostering a society rooted in justice, equality, and compassion.

Palestinians perform the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan near the ruins of a mosque destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, Gaza Strip, March 15, 2024.

In the Holy Land, our Christmas is tinged with grief, but it is not without hope. The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. (Musa Al Shaer / AFP via Getty Images) By Richard Sewell.