Christmas marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth over 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem, Palestine, in what is now the Israeli Occupied West Bank. The occasion is both solemn and ...

For a second straight year, the war raging in Gaza has kept pilgrims and tourists away from Bethlehem in the occupied West ...

He made the remarks a day after the start of the Roman Catholic Church’s Holy Year, known as a Jubilee, which takes place ...

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged "all people of all nations" to find courage during this ...

Israel and Hamas have accused each other of complicating ceasefire efforts, as they inch closer to a deal that could wind ...

At the start of the 2025 Holy Year celebration he dedicated to hope, Francis called for broad reconciliation “even (with) our ...

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message urged "all people of all nations" to find courage "to silence the sounds of ...

An elderly married Palestinian Christian couple displaced by war in the Gaza Strip missed the chance to mark Christmas in ...

Delivering his Christmas Day message overlooking crowds of thousands of international pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square from the ...

Pope Francis prayed that the Jubilee Year may become “a season of hope” and reconciliation in a world at war and suffering ...

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged "all people of all nations" to find courage during this ...