It's been a week since the United States pressed Israel and Iran into a truce, ending a bloody, 12-day conflict that had set the ...

Bethlehem skyline as warning sirens sound after Iranian missile attack on Israel IRAN has launched scores of ballistic missiles at Israel in multiple waves as the Ayatollah's vengeance edges the ...

The organization issued predictions of imminent famine last year that did not come true. But this time could be different. Israel said that the blockade, which began March 2, is aimed at rooting ...

Pope Francis stands at Israel’s West Bank security barrier on his way to a mass in Manger Square in Bethlehem on Sunday, May 25, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ...

Bethlehem workshops where carvers toil over small pieces of olive wood sit empty these days. On most Easters the shops lining the streets of the town known as Jesus’s birthplace would be ...

A selection of recent real estate deals in Israel in Jerusalem, Ramat Gan, Kiryat Ono, ... fourth floor apartment on Derekh Bethlehem in Baka was sold for NIS 2.46 million. A 62 square meter, ...

Since Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages in its Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, Israel’s retaliation campaign has killed 46,000 to 70,000 people or more in Gaza, according to various ...

(Leviticus 25:10) Israel is eagerly preparing to welcome Catholic pilgrims from around the globe for the Jubilee Year of 2025 ... Annunciation in Nazareth the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem the ...

Restrictions have also prevented some 150,000 Palestinians from leaving the territory to work in Israel, causing the economy there to contract by 25 percent. Nigerian worshippers pray in the Church of ...

There are about 182,000 in Israel, 50,000 in the West Bank and Jerusalem and 1,300 in Gaza, according to the U.S. State Department. Elsewhere, worshippers found connection despite difficult times.

Bethlehem is marking another somber Christmas Eve under the shadow of war in Gaza. Manger Square lacked its usual festive lights and crowds of tourists on Tuesday. Instead, the area ...