The historical steps at the Pool of Siloam, where pilgrims bathed themselves upon arrival in the city of David, coincided with the time Jesus walked through the Holy Land. "History abounds with ...

He was a Catholic priest working in Cologne, in what is now Germany, at a time when the Holy Land had been in ... Key episodes from the life of Jesus are strewn across the map.

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece ... are mentioned in documents about the Holy Land written around this time, which could have been a source ...

Holy Week is the most sacred time in Christianity. From Palm Sunday to the victory of Easter seven days later is what defines the faith. There is no Christian religion without the resurrection of ...

During that time ... her pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the late 4th century. In her account, she wrote of the scene in Jerusalem on that day, when Christians celebrate Jesus’ entry into ...

A small relic of wood believed to be a fragment of the manger where Jesus was laid after his birth ... years after it is said to have left the Holy Land. It was donated to Pope Theodore in the ...

A fragment of wood believed to be from Jesus’ manger is back in the Holy Land just in time for Christmas. The tiny inches long relic was first taken out of the Middle East in the 7th century ...

Religious scholars say the earliest followers of the new Jesus movement ... and it is past time," said the Reverend Peter Vasko, president of the Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land.

A fragment of wood believed to be from Jesus’ manger is back in the Holy Land just in time for Christmas. The tiny inches long relic was first taken out of the Middle East in the 7th century ...