Amid an intensive archeological survey to retrieve biblical treasures before antiquity looters, a rare 2,000-year-old Hebrew coin was located in the heart of ancient Israel.

For biblical scholars, archeologists and Israelis, the excavation of the coin is sensational because it is engraved in ancient Hebrew with the words "Holy Jerusalem." The coin is dated to 66/67CE ...

JERUSALEM — Christians have been making pilgrimages to the Holy Land since the time of St. Helena in the fourth century, and the most significant sites of Christian interest — from the ...

Itri is well situated to gaze out on its beautiful surroundings. But the location is strategic – there was more to the ...

THE WAY OF THE CROSS. Only in the Holy Land can you celebrate Jesus’ death and resurrection in the place where it happened. The fourth-century pilgrim Egeria described the Holy Week services in ...

The Holy Land’s sacred sites overflow with tourists in normal times, but with an intractable war in Gaza and the looming threat of attacks by Hezbollah and Iran, airlines have canceled most flights ...

An ancient shipwreck found off the shore of Israel and ... all over the Mediterranean shows that traders from the West still came to port even after the Islamic conquest of the Holy Land, ...

The bells that once graced the ancient Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem have traveled from the Holy Land for a special, one-time-only trip to America. Saturday, June 14, 2025 A service of EWTN News ...

If you are coming all this way to see the Holy Land, ... An ancient two-story building at the top of Mount Zion in Jerusalem contains the room where Jesus is believed to have eaten a Passover meal ...