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

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, the highest Catholic authority in the Holy Land, uses the Jerusalem cross prominently as an emblem of his office. It can be found at Christian holy sites in ...

Five hundred fortunate individuals from across the United States are now carrying a piece of the Holy Land with them as a free gift from an online Christian gift store. |PIC1|Inspired by the tough ...

“Multiple male members of the British royal family have received Jerusalem cross tattoos while visiting the Holy Land, beginning with the future King Edward VII in 1862.” Anyone itching to see ...

The Via Dolorosa, Station IX, in the Old City of Jerusalem is a poignant place of pilgrimage in the Holy Land. (photo: Shutterstock) Michele Chabin World February 4, 2025 JERUSALEM — For the ...

Two men walk near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (Credit: Ariel Schalit/AP.) Listen NEW YORK – As Israel and Hamas close-in on a ceasefire agreement, the ...

Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction ... The tour buses that cross the checkpoint from Jerusalem to the West Bank carry a virtual United Nations of pilgrims.

A reminder of the devotion of Christian pilgrims coming to the Holy Land in the footsteps of ... port cities up to the Old City of Jerusalem. "This cross is a testament to the personal story ...

D.C.’s Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America. It’s also on its website. Workers install a hardwood floor at the Washington National Cathedral, complete with the Jerusalem Cross.

According to tradition, a part of the Holy Cross was discovered by the mother of the emperor Constantine, St. Helen, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 326. A fifth century account describes this ...

A reminder of the devotion of Christian pilgrims coming to the Holy Land in the footsteps of their tradition was recently unearthed in Jerusalem's picturesque Ein Karem neighborhood, a site venerated ...