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

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In many parts of the Christian world, female church leaders are no longer unusual. But until now, the Holy Land - where events in the Bible are set - had not seen a local woman ordained.

29 marked the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in the Holy Land. The event, celebrated on the feast of the Holy Family, was led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. As the Latin patriarch ...

Reuters reports that Manger Square in front of the Church of the Nativity is deserted, its souvenir shops closed against the rockets and rifles that now festoon the Holy Land in place of the ...