The historical steps at the Pool of Siloam, where pilgrims bathed themselves upon arrival in the city of David, coincided with the time Jesus walked through the Holy Land. "History abounds with ...

stressed that there can be no peace in the Holy Land unless there is justice and the understanding that both sides, Israel and Palestine, have a right to exist. The cardinal spoke on Thursday ...

Christmas this season in the Holy Land will be celebratory, despite ongoing bloodshed and war, the patriarchs of the Holy Land said, as Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa encouraged pilgrims to come ...

JERUSALEM — Advent has crept in quietly this year in the Holy Land. It has been stripped away from the usual trappings of Christmas, which normally are impossible to resist either here in ...

16, 2025. (Credit: Ariel Schalit/AP.) Listen NEW YORK – As Israel and Hamas close-in on a ceasefire agreement, the Catholic ordinaries in the Holy Land said the deal is a necessary step ...

Listen ROME – With the war in Gaza morphing into a full-blown regional conflict as the first anniversary of hostilities approaches, the Church’s leading voice in the Holy Land has called on ...

In a letter to his brothers and sisters in Christ, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, appealed for peace in the Holy Land and included a prayer to Our Lady on the ...

We saw tears in the eyes of some of our brethren in the Holy Land.” For Bishop Scotti, “the beauty of this pilgrimage was the opportunity to meet with Christian communities and their leaders ...