Visitors walk through time via an engaging exhibit overseen by the Custody of the Holy Land. Hailed as the world’s first museum to focus on the roots of Christianity, Jerusalem's Terra Sancta Museum ...

The Patriarch also referred to the announcement of peace on the night of Jesus Christ’s birth in Bethlehem, clarifying that ...

This would have been his path. According to the Gospels, it was in the area of Bethany and Bethphage that Jesus would have stayed each evening of the Passover holiday-on the far slope of the Mount of ...

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Christians worldwide celebrate Palm Sunday on April 2, 2022. Palm Sunday, the commemoration of Jesus' final entry into Jerusalem before his crucifixion, death and resurrection, is also the start of ...

On the solemnity of the Ascension, Christians in Jerusalem ascended to the top of the Mount of Olives, where tradition places the exact location of Jesus’ ascension into heaven. It is the only day of ...

An ancient 2,000-year-old receipt was discovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) along the City of David’s Pilgrimage Road in Jerusalem, according to an announcement Wednesday. A small ...

Jerusalem is not merely a city. It is the beating heart of Jewish history, faith, and identity and one of the most contested places on earth precisely because of that centrality. To understand the ...

A restoration team Monday announced the completion of a historic renovation of one of Christianity's holiest sites — the shrine that, according to tradition, houses the tomb of Jesus. The ornate ...

The death and resurrection of Jesus is the most famous underdog story in history. A low-status artisan from Galilee challenged the authorities of his time and ended up dying a brutal and horrifying ...

As the U.S. prepares to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, we review the city's history with Harvard historian Derek Penslar to find out why it's perhaps the most contested place on Earth.

A European priest looks 1,500 years into the past and imagines the Holy City at the birth of Christianity. This 1584 map of Jerusalem, made by a European priest who never visited the city, portrays ...