THE Vatican has now revealed the last known words Pope Francis said to his staff before dying on Easter Monday. The ailing ...

This year’s Easter celebrations in the Holy Land are expected to unfold under a complex and emotional landscape as war ...

I made a life-changing pilgrimage to the Holy Land with my order, the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. I ...

LUCENA CITY, QUEZON, Philippines — An estimated 6.1 million devotees and pilgrims visited the “Kamay ni Hesus” (KNH) Shrine in Lucban town in Quezon province during the Holy Week to fulfill ...

On the Saturday before Easter, thousands of Christians gather in the dark and cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulcher for a ...

An Orthodox pilgrim who attended the ceremony inside the church also ... However, Father Gianfranco Pinto of the Custody of the Holy Land, who was accompanying the delegation, noted that the nuncio ...

In 1834 a frenzied stampede broke out in the darkened church, and the ruler of the Holy Land at the time barely ... in his history of Jerusalem. Some 400 pilgrims died in the melee, most from ...

Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, traveled abroad on apostolic journeys nearly 50 times during his 12-year papacy. The octagenarian pope continued to travel even after being hampered for a ...

Archaeologists uncovered hidden inscriptions and graffiti left by medieval pilgrims on the walls of ... work John Poloner’s Description of the Holy Land, wherein he wrote of the Cenacle ...