JERUSALEM — Hope, the theme chosen by Pope Francis for Jubilee 2025, is in short supply in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza ...

The Associated Press Top Catholic cleric in Holy Land arrives in Bethlehem Posted: December 24, 2024 | Last updated: December 24, 2024 Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa visited Bethlehem on ...

Bethlehem has never been a peaceful place ... Christmases like this one, with 45,000 freshly dead in the land called holy, remind us that we’re out of our depths. If our Christmas celebration ...

Her words resonate as we drive along the West Bank wall on the edges of Bethlehem. A stark reminder of the political divide that is tearing through the Holy Land. On the other side of the wall ...

The traditional Christian procession arrived in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ as described in the Bible, in the ...

War-ravaged Bethlehem will again forgo public celebrations ... call to signify a ‘cancellation of Christmas’ in the Holy Land — the very place of our Lord’s Holy Nativity.

(BETHLEHEM, West Bank ... It is another blow to the Holy Land's dwindling population over the decade due to emigration and a low birthrate. Christians are a small percentage of the population.

Bethlehem is an important center in the history of Christianity, but Christians make up only a small percentage of the ...

"Pilgrims are part of the Holy Land's identity. Their absence impacts not just the spiritual but also the economic life of many families, particularly in Bethlehem," he said, urging visitors not ...

Bethlehem is an important center in the history of Christianity, but Christians make up only a small percentage of the roughly 14 million people spread across the Holy Land.

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now ...

Catholic bishops in the Holy Land prayed for “the ability to hope again” after “a prolonged time of trial and tribulation” in ...