Judith Sudilovsky, Catholic News Service

HAIFA, Israel — One recent morning, Dr. Maher Haddad discussed dentures with 88-year-old Moshe Bar Haim; sprinkled in the Hebrew conversation were words and...

BETHANY, West Bank  -- When Mary, the sister of Lazarus, anointed Jesus' feet days before his crucifixion, she used the precious and expensive spikenard...

JERUSALEM-- Walk down St. Peter Street from the Old City's New Gate, past some shuttered shops and the closed Knight's Palace hotel, continue down...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- As the Christmas approaches, Franciscan Father Rami Asakrieh of St. Catherine Parish said he has been overwhelmed with requests for...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli police arrested a Jewish man after he allegedly threw a firebomb inside the Basilica of All Nations at Gethsemane Church on...

JERUSALEM — Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed astonishment that a large group of evangelical Christians from the U.S. received visas to come...

JERUSALEM — The Israeli “military occupation of Palestine” is the “root cause” of the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said three retired Christian leaders. The statement —...

JERUSALEM — Calling U.S. President Donald Trump’s Peace-to-Prosperity plan a “unilateral initiative,” church leaders in the Holy Land said it did not give “dignity...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Krystyna Linden does not remember much about the first five years of her life, which she spent in a tiny...

For Ashraf Jaraysa, 53, handcrafting olive wood handicrafts is a way of life. A fourth-generation artisan, Jaraysa began working with his father in the family's...