A Christian businessman from Bethlehem who runs a store that sells hand-carved olive wood Nativity scenes said on a visit to Birmingham this week that tourism in the birthplace of Jesus has dried up, ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – Just 1,500 steps from where Jesus was born was born, a chivalric order of Catholic knights is working towards a future where no newborn baby in the Holy Land will be denied a ...

THE VATICAN, November 7, 2025 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, inaugurated the ...

JERUSALEM — In December 2023, the Advent season in Fassuta, a Melkite Christian village about nine miles from the Lebanese border, was solemn and fraught with danger. While the war raged between ...

More than 30 friends and supporters of Friends of the Holy Land (FHL) gathered at Farm Street Church, London, on 16 October and a further 50 people online via livestream for an evening of reflection, ...

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 ...

For the second consecutive year, Advent and Christmas in the Holy Land arrive at a time of war. This past weekend, the people in the small town where Jesus was born welcomed the friars of the Custody ...

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Leaders of Christian churches in the Holy Land have released a joint Christmas message declaring the joyful news of the Nativity and calling for an end to hostilities across the region. “In the midst ...

By Dan Russo Editorial As far as priestly vocations go, Father Bill Kneemiller was a late bloomer. Ordained for the ...Read More ...

Pope Leo XIV and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, recognized the “urgent need to provide assistance ...