The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

Archaeologists excavating beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem s Old City have uncovered evidence of an ...

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The Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem issued an urgent call for Israeli authorities to stop a government plan to seize and ...

Ultra-Orthodox men held protests in Jerusalem Wednesday against efforts to draft members of the community into the Israel Defense Forces. Some 100 men protested near the IDF’s Jerusalem ...

Churches in Jerusalem are in dire financial straits and Church-run institutions such as schools and hospitals are in danger of closing as they struggle with a renewed barrage of demands by the city to ...

If you think Easter is over, think again. In Jerusalem, where a majority of Christians are members of Orthodox denominations, the big celebration of Easter is yet to come. In fact, when the ...