In the usually lively alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City, silence reigned on Easter Sunday, with the holiday overshadowed by ...

(RNS) — Restrictions imposed by Israel against large gatherings due to the Iran war is casting a long shadow on Easter celebrations, but Palestinian Christians may be feeling it most acutely.

Patriarch Theophilos III washed the feet of Orthodox priests in Jerusalem on Thursday in a ceremony made more special by the ...

Jerusalem’s major holy sites are shuttered and families are dejected and exhausted ahead of Passover and Easter as the Iran war enters its fifth week. The mood stands in stark contrast to a usual ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’s restoring access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after ...

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff, urging peace through dialogue and calling for an end to ...

Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre to mark Easter 2026 behind closed doors. Explore the unprecedented security measures ...

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land say an agreement has been reached with Israeli ...

Church leaders in Jerusalem expressed sorrow over the news of the passage by the Israeli Knesset of a death penalty law — by ...

In a rare expression of indignation, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, an ardent Christian Zionist and current U.S. ambassador to Israel, voiced the following rebuke: "For the Patriarch to be barred from ...

The Church leaders said they were living in "cataclysmic times" and that a "darkness" had come over the Holy Land.

Silence reigned on Easter Sunday in the alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City, with the holiday overshadowed by war and ...