Children at an Orthodox Christmas Mass at the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City on Jan. 7, 2023. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images A bomb struck the complex of the historic Church of Saint ...

Christians in the Holy Land celebrated the Feast of the Virgin Mary, Queen of Palestine and the Holy Land on Saturday, Oct.

One week before Christmas. I’m in Manger Square and watching pilgrims descend from buses and make their way to the Church of the Nativity, first built in the fourth century, on the spot where, ...

The first Christian emperor inaugurated a new era in Palestine IN A.D. 325, JUST NINE MONTHS after Constantine became sole ruler of the whole Roman empire, Christian leaders came together for their ...

It takes a brave author to write this kind of history, where every chapter, in some cases every sentence, requires passing through territory that has been analyzed, debated, deconstructed and ...

The holy city fell first to the Persians and finally to the Muslims. But Christianity in the Holy Land lived on. In 614, the armies of Chosroe II, king of the Sassanids, who had ruled the Persian ...

(The Conversation) — A bomb struck the complex of the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza on Oct. 19, 2023, killing more than a dozen of the hundreds of Christians and Muslims taking shelter ...