For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it’s the unmissable Vatican appointment: the midday Sunday blessing the pope ...

Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

Artists have captured the hidden world of papal elections for centuries, turning secrecy into spectacle for the public.

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

A leading archaeology journal has effectively barred submissions by Israelis on Judea and Samaria unless they “have cooperated with the relevant Palestinian authorities.” ...

While preparing for roadwork in the foothills of Jerusalem's Motza neighborhood, diggers happened upon an ancient pillar head ...

A newly discovered 2,000-year-old stone in Jerusalem features a rare menorah engraving, offering a unique glimpse into Second ...

The archaeological find, which features a rare depiction of a seven-branched menorah (a candelabrum used in Jewish worship), ...

Croatian Jews say little effort is made to tamp down valorization of the brutal Ustaše collaborationist regime.

"This was a settlement that was inhabited, apparently, by descendants of discharged Roman soldiers. If so, what was a capital with a menorah decoration—a clear Jewish symbol—doing there?

REUTERS ROME — Romans cheered, clapped and cried on Saturday as they watched the simple, open-topped, white “pope-mobile” carry Francis’ coffin from the Vatican to his chosen burial place at the heart ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just captured its first image of the Curiosity rover driving along the red planet’s surface. The 2,000-pound Mars rover is shown as a dark speck in the ...