April 18 (UPI) --Thousands of people recited prayers while carrying large wooden crosses and walking through the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem acknowledging Good Friday. People marking the ...

Ultra Orthodox Jews prepare Matza, traditional unleavened bread eaten during the 8-day Jewish holiday of Passover, in Jerusalem ... very holy time - because I give just to give, and I pray there ...

In 1996, the Waqf converted the area into a prayer ... Jerusalem, they took back to Persia parts of the True Cross (believed to be the cross of the Crucifixion) from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Jerusalem: In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ... They refused to let anyone cross at the checkpoint," said Mohammed Owaisat, who arrived to find the crossing closed.

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight ...