Nearly every Catholic church depicts the 14 Stations of the Cross — moments of Jesus’ passion and death on the cross — so that the faithful can pray and reflect on them. Now, Catholics worldwide can also pray the stations while seeing,
Pope Francis told Catholics in the Holy Land that he knows Holy Week this year is "so overshadowed by the Passion and, as yet, so little by the Resurrection."
In a letter published March 27, Pope Francis told the region's Catholics that he
When Christians gathered in Jerusalem to remember Jesus' entry into the city, it was one of a few joyful moments in the Holy Land, "crushed by so much hatred" in the months following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
"Despite the war
A bishop in Jerusalem has appealed for Christians to start returning to the Holy Land on pilgrimage, insisting they should visit holy places located within Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Auxiliary Bishop William Shomali of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem made the comments
Peace in the birthplace of Jesus. After millennia of fighting, is such a thing even achievable? To this day, the Holy Land remains perhaps the most hotly contested piece of territory in the Middle East, if not the world. From its Mediterranean
Pope Francis plans to launch a humanitarian project in Gaza or the West Bank with the possible help of the traditional Good Friday collection for the Holy Land, said the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches.
"The outbreak of the war in Gaza, after
A Palestinian bishop has warned that even when the current war in the Holy Land ends, a cycle of hate will continue unless the underlying dispute is resolved by a comprehensive peace process.
Auxiliary Bishop William Shomali of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Cardinal Fernando Filoni, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, an ancient chivalric order of the Catholic Church rooted in the Holy Land, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land as a sign of peace and dialogue
Amid ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military -- despite the Christmas season -- Christian clergymen in the Middle East are decrying attacks on their community's dwindling numbers.
"It was sad, but hopeful to see Christians celebrating Christmas inside the
Visiting for Christmas, the papal envoy, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of Vatican Dicastery for the Service of Charity, assisted the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in the wartime celebration amid the "helplessness" of not being able to ease suffering Palestinians in the Gaza