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 ...

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

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

Come Christmases future I resolve to assemble the nativity no matter the gathering large or small. To me it has become a ...

I couldn't understand all the lyrics — the Spanish was centuries old, and my family lost our Indigenous language long ago.

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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 ...