The custos serves as a unique provincial minister within the Franciscan order, leading a community of friars while also being ...

Local shepherds generally do not appreciate his friendliness. SHEPHERDING IS a long-time tradition in the Holy Land, dating back to pre-biblical times. Adam’s son, Ebel, was a shepherd ...

Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed cautious optimism this week that pilgrims will be able to return to the region ...

A shopkeeper waits for tourists Nov. 10, 2023, as other souvenir shops are closed in Jerusalem's Old City amid the ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, has invited Christians to return to the Holy Land on ...

In a statement released Jan. 16 by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land said they ...

we Christians of the Holy Land are offered a pilgrimage to three special places. Throughout the year, let us try to be ourselves pilgrims to these places, as a community, as families, and also in ...

Ahead of the 'Jordan: Dawn of Christianity' exhibition in the Vatican, Father Rifat Badar, a Jordanian priest with the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, describes how the nation offers hope to refugees ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, invites Christians to return to the Holy Land on ...