Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed cautious optimism that pilgrims will be able to return to the region amid a new ...

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 ...

The fragile truce in Gaza ignites hopes (also) in Jordan to resume tourism as soon as possible a sector considered strategic ...

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 ...

Across the street, through a series of two-story windows, the destination of my pilgrimage stands in unassuming contrast: ...

JERUSALEM — Hope, the theme chosen by Pope Francis for Jubilee 2025, is in short supply in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza ...

Millions of Hindu devotees and mystics have gathered in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, ...

"You shall treat this fiftieth year as sacred. You shall proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a ...

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has emphasised the importance of embracing spirituality over material wealth.

Pilgrimage holidays are increasingly popular. In 1994, fewer than 16,000 people walked the world’s best-known pilgrimage path, Spain’s Camino de Santiago – or the Way of St James. Thirty ...

Several thousand people, including the Vatican’s secretary of state and the patriarch of Jerusalem, attended the consecration ...