Ahead of Ascension Day tomorrow, we’re looking back at the key date in the Christian calendar and how we’ve marked it over ...

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

Eric Huntsman, academic director of the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, reflected on Christ’s last week in Jerusalem with a video filmed at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

While Pizzaballa celebrated Mass for Palm Sunday at the altar of Mary Magdalene in ... on the eastern part of the Mount of Olives and ending at St. Anne’s Church at the Lions’ Gate leading ...

For the past three decades, Mount of Olives Church has brought nativity scenes ... including the angel Gabriel visiting Mary and the three wise men on their way to Bethlehem.

This is British artist Harold Copping’s depiction of the grieving Mary Magdalene as she is about ... pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Odessa. “He gave her the task of ...

As a market emerges for private buyers with a taste for belfries and grand facades, ideas abound for how to turn a church into something else: St. Mary Magdalene ... foot Mount Olive East ...

Jesus recognized Mary’s anointing as a prophetic act, symbolizing his impending death and burial. Luke 7:36-50 portrays a similar event at the house in Jerusalem, which some believe to be Mary ...

Barring some miraculous revelation, Mary Magdalene’s identity as the sinful woman will likely remain a non-binding tradition in the Church. But it is a tradition that beautifully illustrates the ...

and in the 1290s Pope Boniface VIII granted several bulls recognizing their Mary Magdalene relics as authentic and authorizing the construction of a basilica to hold them. The Catholic Church has ...

The story is told in the first chapter of Acts, that after the Ascension the surviving apostles walked from the Mount ... of the Church the term apostle has been applied to people who brought the ...

(John 6:62), and after the resurrection, he says to Mary Magdalene, 'Do not hold me ... The traditional site of the Ascension is on the Mount of Olives, on which the village of Bethany sits. A church ...