The animosity between Jews, Persians/Iranians and Muslims has not always been so. In fact, had it not been for the latter, ...

including the Christian communities of Bethlehem and elsewhere on the West Bank, in Gaza, and in East Jerusalem, who have lived in the land since the time of Jesus. I feel this personally.

From Bergamo, 60-year-old Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa brings the “Mother Church” back among the electors of a Pope for ...

In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus asks his followers a rhetorical question: “What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, ...

Pope Francis died on April 21, 2025. Many world leaders are expected to attend his funeral in Vatican City, including ...

Pastor Munther Isaac of the Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Christmas ... College outside of Chicago to promote his new book, Christ in the Rubble. Wheaton has been known as the flagship of ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. A picture shows a Catholic cardinal sealing Pope Francis' residence ...

celebrated his first Mass there in a chapel that was constructed to resemble the cave in Bethlehem where Jesus was born. (The chapel has since been moved beneath the chapel of Pope Sixtus V.) ...

The much younger Italian cardinal from Bergamo, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, 60, who has made the Holy Land his home for more ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

At 22 he began to follow a vocation to become a priest, and after two years as a novitiate he entered the Society of Jesus, the order ... a traditional and dogmatic view, he was a conservative ...

In the modern era ... the horror-inflected 2004 drama The Passion of the Christ, the animated comedy The Star, and the musical Journey to Bethlehem. The King of Kings has continued its record ...