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

Assisi, the medieval Italian town revered as the home of Saints Francis and Clare, is experiencing a new wave of pilgrim ...

Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...

In 1972, Aretha Franklin performed “Mary, Don’t You Weep” with a gospel choir at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. “We’re going to review the story of two sisters called Mary ...

The calendar date for Easter changes from year to year because the religious holiday is generally observed on the first ...

Our immigration correspondent has found a surprising trend.

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Some 2,000 years ago, olive trees and grapevines likely grew on the land where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem ...

The story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem by donkey is recorded in all four Gospels. Yet it’s the second entry into Jerusalem that may bookend Jesus’ life.

Know the dates for the end of Lent, Holy Week and Easter Sunday in 2025. Why does Easter start late this year?

Over the last year, more than a million pilgrims paid homage to Acutis, according to Rev. Domenico Sorrentino.

As recorded in all four Gospel accounts, when some of the women who’d followed Jesus to Calvary arrived at the tomb on Sunday morning, now recognized as Easter Sunday, to prepare the body for ...