Hundreds of Catholic pilgrims gathered at the Chapel of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives last week in celebration of Jesus’s rising to Heaven. Since 1187, the shrine has been a mosque ...

come to the Mount of Olives for the views. According to one TripAdvisor user, "You look over the Kidron Valley to Jerusalem and Temple Mount. You can imagine Jesus as he looked over Jerusalem and ...

Sometime during his reign, King Herod Antipas murdered John the Baptist — at least that is what Roman historian Josephus Flavius recorded in his 1st-century volume “Antiquities of the Jews.” ...

For the past three decades, Mount of Olives Church has brought nativity ... the church has put on the event to share the story of Jesus Christ with actors and live animals, drawing thousands ...

But as Pope Benedict XVI reminded the faithful on Holy Thursday 2012, “To Holy Thursday also belongs the dark night of the Mount of Olives, to which Jesus goes with his disciples; the solitude ...

VATICAN CITY - Olive trees in the Jerusalem garden revered by Christians as the place where Jesus Christ prayed ... the grove is at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, an important ...

For Christians, the Mount of Olives is significant as it is where Jesus is believed to have prayed and wept before his crucifixion, as well as where he ascended to heaven after his resurrection.

Also known as myrrh, chrism oil is created from olives grown on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem ... The Jerusalem church is the site where the body of Jesus was prepared for burial.