The feast in honor of Our Lady, Queen of Palestine and patroness of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, was first celebrated on Aug. 15, 1928. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of ...

Franciscan monks in charge of churches in the Holy Land are struggling to keep pilgrimage sites open for Christians stuck amid the ongoing conflict. The Custody of the Holy Land, the Catholic priory ...

JERUSALEM – Israel witnessed a spectacular series of archeological discoveries in 2023 that revealed the presence of Jesus and the Jewish people's more than 2,000 years of unbroken presence in the ...

Speaking just hours after his wartime Christmas visit to Gaza City Holy Family Parish, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, delivered a poignant Christmas message during a ...

Pope Leo XIV thanked the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem for its humble service to the communities of the Holy Land.

According to tradition, the church is built on the site of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. It is a ...

JERUSALEM, Israel — On the Saturday before Easter, thousands of Christians gather in the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulcher for a centuries-old ceremony known as the Holy Fire. Holding unlit ...

(RNS) — The top leaders of the major Christian denominations in Jerusalem have called on churches in the Holy Land to refrain from organizing any “unnecessarily festive” Advent and Christmas ...

For the first time since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas on Oct. 7, the Catholic Church of the Holy Land gathered around its patriarch on the feast day of Our Lady, Queen of Palestine ...