A Russian Orthodox church on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives is the unlikely final resting place for Princess Alice of Battenberg ...

For Christians, said Cooper, the Mount of Olives served as Jesus’ base during the “main events” — the last week of Jesus’ life: his arrival in Jerusalem and his shuttling between ...

For more than 3,000 years, the Mount of Olives has served as Jerusalem's primary burial ground and the final resting place of notable biblical figures, such as Zechariah and Absalom. There are ...

Jerusalem’s status remains a perennial source of international debate, but those who truly understand the historical and ...

View from Mount of Olives across Jewish cemetary and Kidron Valley The view of the Old City from the Mount of Olives is one of the best in Jerusalem to get the full panorama of the sites.

Thousands of Christians celebrated Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, kicking off the first day of Holy Week while the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas persists in the region.

The pilgrims waving palm fronds wound their way down from Bethphage — a Franciscan church located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem — down to the Monastery of the Ascension and downhill to ...

On Thursday, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church commemorates the Ascension of the Lord, also known as Spasovden. It is always ...

“Indeed it is Jerusalem [Beit al-Maqdis] and his words to the Israelites were: we have set a meeting with you at the right side of the Mount of Olives, that is – Jerusalem [Beit al-Maqdis].

A Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, a ridge opposite Jerusalem’s Old City, offers a sweeping view of the gleaming golden dome. Some Jewish extremists see the Islamic shrine as a ...

The oil was pressed from olives harvested on the Mount of Olives ... head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, and the Most Rev. Hosam Naoum, the Anglican archbishop in Jerusalem.

“Both to King Charles, to the church and Jerusalem, to the Holy Land and I think to the whole world.” The holy oil has been created using olives harvested from two groves on the Mount of ...