ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Families and businesses around Louisiana are decorating and preparing for the Christmas season, but Emmanuel Baptist Church in Alexandria is planning a different form of ...

Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed cautious optimism this week that pilgrims will be able to return to the region ...

Shibly Kando stands in his shop Jothour of Kando in Bethlehem, West Bank, which was scheduled to open in mid-October of 2023. When Israel was attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, he paused all ...

Over the years people have travelled hundreds of miles to get to Bethlehem, although not so much on donkeys these days, apart from a local pilgrimage at the weekend from nearby Llandeilo.

7, 2023 is being secured at the cost of war. The ongoing war in Gaza has scared away tourists and pilgrims, forcing Bethlehem’s economy, which depends heavily on tourism and religious pilgrimage, into ...

Five years ago, my wife and I joined a religious pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and we did celebrate Christmas right there in the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, which is currently under the ...

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 ...