Pope Francis has designated 2025 a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, and NJ travel agencies hope a fragile ceasefire in ...

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The Way to Jerusalem pilgrimage initiative ... Gethsemane means “olive press” in Greek, and in Jesus’ time this was indeed an olive grove. Some very old olive trees are still alive in the garden and ...

JERUSALEM (OSV News) – For the second year in a row, few foreign pilgrims were in attendance at the traditional Palm Sunday ...

Holly Sue told me that one of her go-to dishes for her family is a vibrantly seasoned chicken and rice dish from Yotam Ottolenghi’s cookbook, “Jerusalem” (Ten Speed Press). I tasted it and ...

The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria and were part of the end to Israel's 1948 war. Information ...

The faithful emerged from St. Peter’s Square carrying blessed palm fronds or olive branches to mark the occasion. While the pope’s appearance was widely expected, pilgrims acknowledged some ...

Al-‘Ajlah succeeded Haitham Rizq Abd al-Karim Sheikh Khalil as commander of Hamas's Shejaiya battalion. Khalil was killed last week. Information ...

Olive Trees With Yellow Sky and Sun, oil on canvas, 1889. Van Gogh painted several of his most famous works while at the asylum, including his Iris series and The Starry Night. In May of 1889, in ...

Jesus turning to them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the ...