The altar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ... is considered occupied territory under international law following Israel's 1967 annexation. East Jerusalem mainly consists of Palestinian ...

Worshippers kneel on debris in Gaza, thousands barred from Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem, and Eid is marked by military raids, arrests ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, cuts an unmistakable figure in the dark corridors of the ancient, stone patriarchate in this troubled corner of the world.

An ecumenical group of Christians in Jerusalem issued an “SOS” for Gaza, appealing for renewed international efforts to ...

On Wednesday, Lonzi and his fellow priests were among the several hundred people who gathered at the Church of the Holy ... City’s Christian Quarter in East Jerusalem, which Israel captured ...

Cardinal Pizzaballa’s reverence for traditional elements of church practice has made him palatable to some conservatives. But after spending decades in the Middle East, he is something of a wild ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Standing in the east Jerusalem school he attended as a young boy, Palestinian construction worker Ahmad Shweikeh studies his son’s careful penmanship.

Augusta Victoria Compound is a church-hospital complex ... it is giving $45.5 million to the East Jerusalem Hospitals Network, via the U.S. Agency for International Development, to help it ...