Fresh finds beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre add hard evidence of a first-century garden and the site’s earlier life ...

Francis repeatedly denounced the war in Gaza and regularly phoned a small Christian congregation in besieged territory ...

Christians from around the world prayed for Pope Francis at a solemn Mass on Wednesday at Jerusalem's centuries-old Church of ...

In one of his last public acts, Pope Francis gave a message of hope and peace in his Easter Sunday speech at the Vatican only ...

Francis did not preside over the Vatican’s Easter Mass as he was limiting his workload since his hospitalization, but made an ...

Pope Francis died on Monday, one day after addressing the crowd from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on Easter Sunday.

This annual ritual, held on Holy Saturday (the day before Orthodox Easter), is a central tradition in Orthodox Christianity, ...

Archaeologists say new findings from one of Christianity’s holiest sites align with descriptions in the Gospels long ...

Abuna Yemata Guh, a remote and ancient church in a very difficult to access location The Sanctuary of the Virgin of the Crown ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

The traditional location of Jesus Christ's tomb is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. But does the historical evidence support this tradition?

Archaeological excavations launched in 2022 in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem have yielded significant data on the site’s original use and appearance.