Many Christians of the Holy Land rejoiced at the election of Pope Leo XIV as the successor to Saint Peter. Many of us hope ...

Religious pilgrimages are arguably enjoying a level of popularity today that hasn’t been seen since medieval times when ...

Crowded environment and extreme heat in Saudi Arabia are considered to worsen the risk of infection for Hajj pilgrims.

In 2023, I made a life-changing pilgrimage to the Holy Land with my order, the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. I saw all the towns that Jesus ministered in, such as Galilee ...

ON TUESDAY 240 pilgrims left London to visit the Holy Land. We know a good deal about the spirit in which such pilgrimages were enterprised in former days, and there is every ground for feeling that ...

On a quiet hilltop in northern Israel, surrounded by palm trees and scented flowers, Father Anthony Randazzo closed his eyes and reflected on the significance of the ground beneath him. Like many ...

Ferns Diocesan spokesman and Barntown Curate Fr John Carroll recently returned from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, led by another Wexford native Fr Nicholas Dempsey. In this article, Fr John tells ...

The government has set the Hajj pilgrimage cost arranged by the Religious Affairs Ministry at Rp 89.7 million ($5,449) per ...

Arab Muslims conquered the Holy Land in 638. The Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque are sites of pilgrimage for Muslims. For Jewish people, Jerusalem is important it is seen as the centre of ...

The duit raya (money packet) that I received during every Hari Raya went straight into my Tabung Haji account. My mother ...