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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JERUSALEM — Hope, the theme chosen by Pope Francis for Jubilee 2025, is in short supply in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza right now, but is needed more than ever, local Catholic leaders say. While few ...

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.

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

Currently based in Jerusalem, she collaborates with the Custody of the Holy Land. The keffiyeh was visible during the presentation of the Bethlehem Nativity to Pope Francis in the Vatican’s Paul ...

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

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

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.

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

Tourism accounts for an estimated 70% of Bethlehem’s income — almost all from the Christmas season. Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land ...