The last time the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was closed for an extended period was in 1349, during an outbreak of the Black Death in Jerusalem. Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Israel.

Senior clergy say outside agendas are fracturing Christian unity in the Holy Land and undermining their authority.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has criticized Orthodox church leaders in Jerusalem for disparaging "free-church ...

The importance of what lies beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is that the structure is not merely a shrine; it is also a functioning structure being pushed to its limits, obliged to continue ...

A member of the restoration team removes a stone from the floor of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Historic Christian churches representing the predominantly Arab Christian community and mostly U.S.

Jerusalem — Israeli police on Thursday arrested an American tourist after he allegedly knocked down and broke a statue of Jesus in a church in Jerusalem's Old City. Images on social media showed the ...

Pressed against a wall in a back corridor of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a stone slab bore testimony only to the graffiti etched on it by multitudes of pilgrims through the ages. But the ...

(RNS) — The scene at the church was a stark contrast to last year's, when only a handful of religious leaders held the centuries-old ceremony in a near-empty setting enforced by the coronavirus ...