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 ...

In Catholicism, the Jubilee Year is a holy and special year of grace, forgiveness, and renewal, inviting believers to deepen ...

Connecticut's Holy Land USA is a crumbling hodgepodge of biblical settings that was also the site of a grisly 2010 murder; a ...

"You shall treat this fiftieth year as sacred. You shall proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a ...

In this article, I address declining Christian populations in other key biblical locations and explore the reasons for such ...

Seven Hillsdale students speSeven Hillsdale students spent nine days of their winter break in Israel with Passages, visiting ...

Instead, Bethlehem University's Christmas tree ... standards decline over the past five years. Further reading: 'Holy Land needs the light of Christmas' Signs of poverty, typically hidden in ...

This is the first time during his administration that Biden gave the award with distinction, the White House said.

Over the past 15 years and especially since the atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023, annihilationist Palestinianism has become the ...

"Perhaps, if we had more knowledge of Arabs we would show more concern for the Palestinians suffering in Gaza in the midst of ...

One star like, not recommended,'" Hrab chuckled. However, fellow podcasters are tuning in. The Bethlehem man, who has about 10,000 weekly worldwide listeners, comments on the historic, interviews ...