The custos serves as a unique provincial minister within the Franciscan order, leading a community of friars while also being ...

Paradoxically, the post-ceasefire period in Gaza has been even more difficult to endure for our columnist Marie-Armelle ...

While few Holy Land Christians will be able to travel to ... launched the Jubilee Year in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, at the Basilica of the Annunciation, the site where the Virgin ...

Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed cautious optimism this week that pilgrims will be able to return to the region amid a new ceasefire and hostage release agreement in Gaza, which is ...

In the Holy Land, we should resist the temptation to confuse hope with a political solution to the conflict, which is nowhere in sight, except perhaps for the next generation. Indeed, these are two ...

We live in an open-air prison, faced with numerous hardships, but we prefer to remain in Bethlehem.” A Christian faith that is never flaunted, but rooted in the land where Jesus was born, underlies ...

A few months ago, Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson, guitarists for Swedish metal perennials Opeth, stopped by the Martin ...

Great importance is being attached to the main door of the Basilica of Nazareth, where the Incarnation historically took place ...

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has emphasized the importance of living a Christ-centered life during the Jerusalem Pilgrim award ...

Nations have the right to protect their borders, broadly speaking. But this does not absolve the Christians within those ...

The Vatican has sought to engage young people in the 2025 Jubilee pilgrimage with the introduction of Luce, an anime-inspired official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee.