On Friday, Oct. 27, after two weeks, the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land returned to pray the Way of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. Credit: Marinella Bandini The ...

JERUSALEM — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ... They refused to let anyone cross at the checkpoint,” said Mohammed Owaisat, who arrived to find the crossing ...

April 18 (UPI) --Thousands of people recited prayers while ... the Old City of Jerusalem acknowledging Good Friday. People marking the Christian holy day follow the Way of the Cross or Via ...

According to tradition, a part of the Holy Cross was discovered by the mother of the emperor Constantine, St. Helen, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 326. A fifth century account describes this ...

JERUSALEM, April 14 (Reuters) - Muslim worshippers packed Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa compound for noon prayers on the fourth Friday of the holy month of ... Following the cross-border flare up, Prime ...

As Passover and Holy Week came to a close ... I visited [the Western Wall] in Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem, and placed a prayer from [the president] between the stones.

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight ...