In the United States, Catholic pilgrimage leaders also expressed ... even amid the fighting in Gaza. Ray said he hopes the ceasefire will hold and that prospective pilgrims will be inspired ...

Displaced Palestinians gather with their belongings near a roadblock as they wait to return to their homes in the northern ...

Tents were set up along the roads leading to the shrine to provide services and rest for the pilgrims. Iraqi security forces ...

Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners early on Monday, hours after the return of three Israeli hostages freed by Hamas to Israel. This development followed the implementation of a long-anticipated ...

Iran-allied groups Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon were also battered over more than a year of war with Israel. Tenuous ceasefire agreements are now in place in both Gaza and Lebanon.

Pope Francis has thanked all mediators involved in the Israel–Hamas ceasefire agreement that has come into effect in war-torn ...

Moments before a deadly stampede at the world's biggest religious gathering in India, Hindu devotees queuing to take a ...

A group of Christian leaders visiting the Holy Land say they “hope that a fragile ceasefire agreement” between Israel and ...

A shopkeeper waits for tourists Nov. 10, 2023, as other souvenir shops are closed in Jerusalem's Old City amid the ...

The Holy Land Coordination, a delegation from international bishops’ conferences, landed in the Holy Land for a five-day ...

Having touched down in the Holy Land to the news that a ceasefire had been brokered between Hamas and Israel in Gaza to come into effect from Sunday, 19 January, Bishop Nicholas Hudson greeted the ...