The keys of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the operation of its doors have been entrusted to two Muslim families for centuries ...

The official ceremony began at 14:15, after the sealing of the Holy Sepulchre was broken. The Patriarch of Jerusalem, ...

Each year, the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem leads the Holy Fire ceremony. He enters the Edicule, a small shrine within the Holy Sepulchre encasing Christ’s ...

Archaeological excavations launched in 2022 in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem have yielded significant data ...

Jerusalem/PNN/ In a tradition dating back more than 850 years, two Muslim families in Jerusalem on Friday handed ov ...

Cardinal Pizzaballa's homily in front of Jesus' empty tomb. “The world has a poor, even offensive idea of peace: too many ...

Priests were chanting in Aramaic, the ancient language of Jesus. I was longing to go into the sepulchre itself, a tiny chapel built over the site where Jesus had been buried after his death on the ...

In 1878, two nieces of Pope Pius IX ended their "begging tour" of the West in Omaha, where they could set up the first Order of the Poor Clares in ...

Visiting holy sites, seeing the mountains that Jesus knew. Praying with Palestinian Christians and staying with Christians ...

Religious leaders have delivered their traditional Easter messages.

And on the Sunday, very early in the morning, I went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Priests were ... through the tiny entrance door. Just as the Mary Magdalene and the others had done ...