After the First Crusade seized Jerusalem, the Crusader states faced relentless war to hold their ground. From the clash at ...

Though it failed to recapture Jerusalem, the Third Crusade is considered a major success by historians. Richard the Lionheart reversed many of Saladin’s territorial gains, reclaiming key coastal ...

According to Catholic News Agency, the cross predates the First Crusade (1096-1099), but became more common after the Kingdom of Jerusalem adoptedthe cross as its chief banner in the 1200s before ...

The cross first appeared in the years before Pope Blessed Urban II called for the First Crusade (1096-1099) to set off to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control.

Boomer’s talk was titled “Constructing the Past in a Crusading Present” and focused on the Latin occupation of Jerusalem after the First Crusade, where the Dome of the Rock was repurposed as a ...

In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by Israeli forces.

Film & TV In Jerusalem, everything is political — even the stone architects used to design the city Danae Elon’s film ‘Rule of Stone’ explores the history behind Jerusalem’s architecture ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, has emerged as an intriguing possibility ahead of conclave, thrust into the spotlight by the war in Gaza.