Christmas returns to Bethlehem amid ongoing concerns over Christian population decline from 86% in 1950 to just 10% today, ...

Jerusalem Church leaders have issued a Christmas message speaking of their continued hope for peace amid ongoing conflict and ...

Recently, Christians from all over the world celebrated Easter all on the same day. It was a great day for all Christians, regardless if you’re Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant. I pray for the day ...

2025 was a complex and multifaceted year for Christians in the Middle East. Across six pivotal countries, the contours of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest discoveries in the Judean Desert are not just spectacular artifacts, they are hard evidence that Christian ...

Franciscan monks in charge of churches in the Holy Land are struggling to keep pilgrimage sites open for Christians stuck amid the ongoing conflict. The Custody of the Holy Land, the Catholic priory ...

This year’s Easter celebrations in the Holy Land are expected to unfold under a complex and emotional landscape marked by sorrow and hope as war continues in Gaza and security tensions escalate across ...

On a quiet hilltop in northern Israel, surrounded by palm trees and scented flowers, Father Anthony Randazzo closed his eyes and reflected on the significance of the ground beneath him. Like many ...

Visits to Israel fall 45 percent as violence escalates. In the mid-1980s, visiting Israel around Easter Sunday was like shopping in a farmer’s market at rush hour. “We’d wait three hours at some sites ...