Addressing the challenges in the Holy Land, Cardinal Pizzaballa highlighted the obstacles Christian families face in reaching their churches due to military checkpoints and repeated closures. Cardinal ...

As I walked through the exhibit, I thought of my grandparents, who fled Iran and found refuge in Israel. Their story was ...

Under a compromise thrashed out in 1948 between Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion and the ultra-Orthodox community, young Haredi men have for years been exempt from military service if they instead ...

Mourners carry the bodies of Palestinian-American Sayfollah Musallet, 20, and Mohammed al-Shalabi during their funeral in the West Bank village of Al-Mazraa a-Sharqiya on Sunday, July 13, 2025.

Christian leaders in the Holy Land, as well as Palestinian government officials, condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent speech at the United Nations General Assembly and blamed ...

In response to the July 18 Repository article on the Israeli attack on Gaza and the strike on Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, I am a Knight in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of ...

Rhode Island has four “commanderies,” or lodges, of Knights Templar whose members meet once a month, generally in Masonic ...

as U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel's parliament that peace had arrived in the Holy Land. The Israeli military said it had received all hostages confirmed to be alive, after their transfer from ...

Friar Francesco Patton, the outgoing Franciscan custos of the Holy Land, reflected on his nine years in office and proposed a path to achieving peace in the face of war in the region. He also noted ...

Pope Leo XIV thanked the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem for its humble service to the communities of the Holy Land.