Jubilee Year 2025, themed “Pilgrims of Hope,” began Dec. 24, 2024, with the opening of the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica, ...

Given all of this, the estimated effect that the Jubilee will have on Florence will be about +6-7% of overnight stays in 2025 ...

(RNS) — The hope of a new year is here as the Catholic Church enters the 2025 Jubilee, a yearlong period of forgiveness and mercy whose theme is taken from Romans 5: “Hope does not disappoint.” The ...

Biblical scholar John Bergsma tells the Register, ‘the Church to this day is still about the ministry of Jubilee.’ ...

The Jubilee year is the Jewish tradition celebrated every 50 years to promote social and economic equality with three key ...

The aim of the Jubilee, he said, is "to bring hope to the interminable, dreary days of prisoners, to the cold and dismal lodgings of the poor and to all those places desecrated by war and violence." ...

Francis oversaw the opening of a special bronze-panelled "Holy Door" at St. Peter's, which is opened only during Jubilee years. Pope Francis said the story of Jesus' birth as a poor carpenter's ...

Rome facelift - Some 700 security officers are being deployed around the Vatican and Rome for the Jubilee celebrations, with measures further tightened following Friday's car-ramming attack on a ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Rome, Dec 25 (IANS) The 2025 Jubilee Year was officially launched in Rome under heightened security measures. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi convened a national public ...

ROME, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- The 2025 Jubilee Year was officially launched on Tuesday in Rome under heightened security measures. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi convened a national ...

The Jubilee begins with a symbolic moment: the Pope opening the Holy Door, which this year took place on Christmas Eve. The tradition, dating back to the 15th century, sees the Pope open the Holy ...