With the current war in Israel resulting in the cancellation of many planned tours and pilgrimages to the Holy Land, the Magdala Tourist Center in the biblical town of Magdala is offering a "virtual ...

Nigerian authorities have suspended all pilgrimages to Israel and the occupied West Bank with immediate effect, citing security concerns linked to the escalating conflict in the M ...

JERUSALEM — In late April, more than a dozen well-known Italian athletes ran from Jerusalem to the Israeli-Palestinian checkpoint on the outskirts of Bethlehem. Israeli athletes ran alongside the ...

WEST FARGO — On Oct. 14, Shawn and Lori DeKeyser cheered happily from football stands in Moorhead for their daughter’s boyfriend and his Dragons team. Melding into the crowd, no one would have ...

Pope Francis at the end of his general audience on Wednesday morning announced another worldwide day of prayer and fasting for an end to the Israel-Hamas war, on Oct. 27. Father Björn Lundberg, center ...

Father Björn Lundberg was looking forward to his trip to Israel. A parish priest of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, Lundberg hadn’t set foot in the Holy Land since last going on pilgrimage there ...

A tour guide speaks to a group at the third Station of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem’s Old City April 3, 2022. (Credit: Debbie Hill/CNS.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – As the effects ...

During the month of April in Jerusalem, the major holidays of the three major religions — Christian Easter, Jewish Passover, and the month of Ramadan — passed with an almost total absence of pilgrims ...