For Christians, said Cooper, the Mount of Olives served as Jesus’ base during the “main events” — the last week of Jesus’ life: his arrival in Jerusalem and his shuttling between ...

Hundreds of Catholic pilgrims gathered at the Chapel of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives last week in celebration of Jesus’s rising to Heaven. Since 1187, the shrine has been a mosque ...

come to the Mount of Olives for the views. According to one TripAdvisor user, "You look over the Kidron Valley to Jerusalem and Temple Mount. You can imagine Jesus as he looked over Jerusalem and ...

The Old City of Jerusalem is seen from the Mount of Olives, in East Jerusalem ... mark the traditional places of events in the life of Jesus. The Armenian, Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches ...

Sometime during his reign, King Herod Antipas murdered John the Baptist — at least that is what Roman historian Josephus Flavius recorded in his 1st-century volume “Antiquities of the Jews.” ...

But as Pope Benedict XVI reminded the faithful on Holy Thursday 2012, “To Holy Thursday also belongs the dark night of the Mount of Olives, to which Jesus goes with his disciples; the solitude ...

For the past three decades, Mount of Olives Church has brought nativity ... the church has put on the event to share the story of Jesus Christ with actors and live animals, drawing thousands ...

For Christians, the Mount of Olives is significant as it is where Jesus is believed to have prayed and wept before his crucifixion, as well as where he ascended to heaven after his resurrection.