Dair-al-Muharraq "...go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead." Matt. 2:20 Like displaced persons in any age or in any clime, the Holy Family had to move fairly often.

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

A shopkeeper waits for tourists Nov. 10, 2023, as other souvenir shops are closed in Jerusalem's Old City amid the ...

Templars Today, a private association of lay faithful, signed an agreement with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization to ...

Luce carries symbols that have been associated with pilgrimage in Europe since the 12th century, particularly with the shrine ...

“They are the places from which the hope of Christians ... the Holy Land celebrate the Jubilee Year by coming on pilgrimages. The Holy Land tourism industry was decimated first by COVID-19 ...

Ahead of the 'Jordan: Dawn of Christianity' exhibition in the Vatican, Father Rifat Badar, a Jordanian priest with the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, describes how the nation offers hope to refugees ...

As part of the Jubilee Holy Year, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., has announced that several churches in the archdiocese will serve as local pil ...

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This pilgrimage was documented by a person who came to be known as the Anonymous Pilgrim of Bordeaux. He wrote in his diary “The Bordeaux Pilgrim” in 333 about his trip to the Holy Land when the ...