Tens of thousands of people have gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem for the traditional priestly ...

FR John Sullivan was in his late twenties, a little lost in life, and he happened to bump into a priest at a piety store at the back of a church in Toowoomba. The priest said, “How are things?” Fr ...

Tens of thousands of Israelis thronged the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the traditional Priestly Blessing, a ...

Tens of thousands attended the Western Wall in Jerusalem for the Priestly Blessing amid ongoing tensions. The event, a ...

The “Birkat Cohanim,” or Cohen’s blessing, is a ritual dating back to over 2,500 years ago when King Solomon’s Temple stood on the same site. The blessing is performed by Jewish men who can trace ...

The ceremony will be attended by the Chief Rabbis of Israel, hostages and their families, and the Mayor of Jerusalem.

During the ceremony, the young man holds up posters for two captives still in the Strip, Segev Kalfon and Alon Ohel, as the massive crowd recites the prayer for the hostages ...

Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops, priests, and sometimes deacons, but as in many other religions ...

During the Chrism Mass on April 14, 2025 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy (at center ...

Tens of thousands of people have gathered at Judaism’s holiest site in Jerusalem for the traditional priestly blessing prayer JERUSALEM -- Tens of thousands of people gathered at Judaism’s ...