Archaeologists in southern Jordan have uncovered a rare royal inscription bearing the seal of Pharaoh Ramses III, dating back ...

The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing ...

April 18 (UPI) --Thousands of people recited prayers while carrying large wooden crosses and walking through the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem acknowledging Good Friday. People marking the ...

Christians have accused Israeli police of turning Jerusalem's Old City into a militarised zone during Easter festivities over the weekend. One video circulated widely on social media showed a ...

similar to a Jerusalem bagel. "Based on the double use of the feminine suffix ‘ya’, the researchers concluded that this is a graffito of a female Christian pilgrim from the Syrian city of ...

It’s part bureaucracy, part democracy, part theocracy, and part epic drama. The election of a new Pope, spiritual leader of ...

Israel Police have been accused of turning Jerusalem's Old City into a "militarised zone" and blocking worshippers from praying over Easter, after violent scuffles broke out near one of ...

Thousands of people gathered in the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica to witness the Easter week mass on Holy Thursday. Thousands of worshippers filled the Vatican's St Peter’s Basilica on Holy ...

Thousands of pilgrims have joined the annual Stations of the Cross procession in the old town of Jerusalem as Christians around the world were marking Good Friday. In the years leading up to the ...

Bells rang out as the Pope's coffin was carried across St Peter's Square to lie in state ahead of the funeral on Saturday.