The worldwide Good Friday collection for the Holy Land "is the principal source of financing" for the ministry of the ...

Bethlehem workshops where carvers toil over small pieces of olive wood sit empty these days. On most Easters the shops lining ...

Her words resonate as we drive along the West Bank wall on the edges of Bethlehem. A stark reminder of the political divide that is tearing through the Holy Land. On the other side of the wall ...

In Jordan, a 50km pilgrimage trail follows the path of a 4th-Century nun who journeyed through the Holy Land – centuries ...

Political control of Bethlehem has flip-flopped many times ... a Franciscan friar who is the Vice Commissary of the Holy Land in Washington, D.C. and lives in Jerusalem for half the year.

In central Bethlehem, the Terra Sancta Scout Troop ... Prayers for peace - For Christians in the Holy Land, who number about 185,000 in Israel and 47,000 in the Palestinian territories, prayer ...

The Vatican called on Catholic bishops worldwide to make the Good Friday Collection a pastoral priority. The annual ...

“Baby of Bethlehem” (also known as “Singing in the Land”) is an African-American spiritual that was also included in the same 1953 volume of Ruth Crawford Seeger’s American Folk Songs ...

Poor conditions in an unrenovated Holy Land school. Credit ... The tradition of being an artisan in Bethlehem is being threatened by the flight of young people from the area and the ongoing ...