Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East.

The threat facing holy sites in the region is more intangible — a lack of financial support from international pilgrims.

THIS atlas astonishes and delights us. For two shillings and sixpence we at last get beautifully finished maps, showing the land and water hemispheres, and the lands which are blessed with an ...

Amid the uncertainty of war, what is the outlook for the Holy Land’s many precious sites? CNA spoke to Father David Grenier, U.S. commissary of the Holy Land.