Two friends who made a pact to visit every Catholic Church in Brooklyn completed their mission two years and 109 churches ...

One of the important stipulations to which families must agree is that the cremated remains will never be disinterred, ...

Reopened after a major renovation at its historic Fifth Avenue location in New York, The Frick Collection presents a unique ...

Six years later, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel to retake ...

Due to various critical threats, UNESCO has designated several endangered heritage sites worldwide, including one in ...

Every major world religion has a process for moral accounting. That’s something we rarely talk about in secular society. By Lauren Jackson I’m the host of Believing, a new newsletter about religion ...

Eusebius Joseph Beltran, Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, died Sept. 12, 2025, at age 91. “Archbishop Beltran was indeed a good shepherd,” Archbishop Paul S. Coakley said. “He ...

This comes just weeks after the same graffiti was found sprayed on the Western Wall, with many Israeli sites linking the two events. A Jerusalem resident was arrested on suspicion of spraying the ...

Under the hot shimmer of July in Jerusalem, a giant crane swung endlessly back and forth last week lifting new girders above an old shrine. The Dome of the Rock, at Jerusalem’s eastern edge, was to ...

Marian Crișan, who won the Palme d’Or in Cannes for his short film “Megatron” as well as directing Locarno award-winning “Morgen” and HBO series “Silent Valley,” is gearing up to shoot his next ...

Hani was walking, as he did every year, with his wife and children toward the Holy Fire celebration at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. But this year, it was different. As they neared the Old City in ...

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, left, light candles for Christian pilgrims during the Holy Fire ceremony, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, 19.04.2025 Eala-Swiatek rematch ...