Amid the turmoil of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Father Francesco Patton, the custos of the Holy Land, has a unique ...

We can’t manage all the time with the increasing numbers of requests.” Askarieh lamented the decline in Bethlehem’s Christian ...

When Islamist rebels swept through Syria’s second largest city in an operation that would eventually culminate in the ouster ...

The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the few functional medical centers in Gaza, said it was targeted by IDF shelling ...

The Israeli military said it failed to intercept a missile from Yemen early on Saturday that fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, ...

A Christian worshipper visits the Church of the Nativity in the biblical city of Bethlehem ... Palestinian Issa Kassissieh, dressed as Santa Claus, poses for a photo at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem s Old ...

More biscuits are eaten in Britain than in any other European country. On average, each of us consumes 10kg per year - that's the equivalent of two digestives a day. Absent-minded biscuit-munching ...

Rev Sara Roberts said the state of some old, closed graveyards was "quite sad" [BBC] Councils should take responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of old, closed graveyards, the Church in ...

Years before America declared its independence, European immigrants arrived in search of new lives and brought their faiths with them. Settling on a swath of land that eventually became known as ...

"Our old churches were largely built of stone or brick, and unlike wood, they proved themselves more sturdy against the ravages of time," he said. Compiling a list of the oldest local churches ...