Amid the turmoil of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Father Francesco Patton, the custos of the Holy Land, has a unique ...

The entry of the jubilee cross into the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on Dec. 29 marked the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in the Holy Land.

This call to action is mirrored in the video’s narrative, where the protagonists encounter “pilgrims of hope” who offer comfort and invite them on a symbolic journey toward the Holy Door ...

Five years after the devastating fire, the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris carries an undeniable message: ancestral craftsmanship has not been lost. Today, as in the past, humanity is c ...

Bethlehem is marking another somber Christmas Eve under the shadow of war in Gaza. Manger Square lacked its usual festive ...

Our commitment this Christmas is to rebuild our trust and renew our hope for life here in Bethlehem and throughout Palestine, ...

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message has urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this Holy Year ...

Let’s inject more objective, fact-based, ecumenical knowledge into the regional equation, which would achieve much for religiously motivated supporters (and opponents) of Zionism.

Post reporter Caitlin Doornbos hoped to take a break from the war to share the stories of Christians making their pilgrimages ...

The Christmas spirit in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, was festive yet overshadowed on Christmas Eve by the grim ...

Bethlehem is hardly calm and bright this holiday. Neither is the rest of the region that three world religions consider ...

St. Francis was inspired, it is believed, by his pilgrimage to the Holy Land to depict the scene of Christ’s birth in a literal way. As his first biographer, Brother Thomas of Celano, explains it, St.