A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis visited Rome's central prison Thursday and met with dozens of inmates as he kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least fortunate ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis visited Rome's central prison Thursday and met with dozens of inmates as he kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least fortunate, even as ...

SAN MIGUEL ESCOBAR, Guatemala (AP) — Stitch by stitch, artisans have worked for months on the elaborate garments that will debut this week in Holy Week processions across Guatemala and beyond. The ...

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

Good Friday, April 18, is the Holy Land Collection. (CNS file photo) On Good Friday, April 18, Catholics across the world will be asked to give to the Holy Land Collection, which is the main source of ...

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It was the last Christian city of the former Latin States of the Holy Land to fall in 1291. The Negev Desert covers an area of 12,500 square kilometers. It occupies almost all of southern Israel, from ...

She also noted that the Holy Land “has currently been devoid of Christian ... “Israel is the only place in the world where Jewish-Christian relations are completely different from those ...

“It is very rare to see youths participating in the Holy Land tour. They might plan a trip to Israel and other places in the region but the spots that they visit are non-religious,” says Thoma ...

VATICAN CITY — A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Happy Palm Sunday, Happy Holy Week,” in yet another ...

HYDRAA will use Survey of India's 1970 topographic sheets, cadastral maps, revenue records, and historical satellite imagery to build a land information system. Satellite data, aerial photos ...