Can a handful of olive pits and grape pollen alter the imagination of a known sacred landscape? Beneath the worn stone paths ...

The Kisiyas come from a minority of Christians who have lived in the Al-Makhrour valley for thousands of years and make up ...

(RNS) — The time has come to end arbitrary Israeli travel restrictions and the overused excuse of security to allow for the ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into biblical stories. The shrine that houses the traditional burial place of ...

The church managed to survive the Blitz despite an explosion almost destroyed it ...

“Any viewer’s tongue will grow shorter trying to describe it,” marveled the inveterate traveler Ibn Battuta while visiting Jerusalem in 1326. “This is one of the most fantastic of all buildings, of ...

Artificial-intelligence-powered religious apps are booming. The Bible Chat app has been downloaded more than 30 million times, according to Lauren Jackson of The New York Times, and the ...

With the closing of the Holy Door of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome, the Vatican began on Dec. 25 the gradual conclusion of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope convened by the Church. The rite was presided ...

COMMENTARY: The famous phrase from Pope St. Paul VI is widely invoked in discussions about the Catholic Church. But what did ...

St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, which oversees the Holy Cross Church property on the near-east side of Indianapolis, is arguing in a federal lawsuit that the city’s steps to preserve the century-old ...

The battle over an empty, fenced-off Catholic Church on the east side has moved from the city chambers to federal court after church leaders filed a lawsuit claiming the city of Indianapolis was ...