Tens of thousands of Jews congregated at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Thursday for a mass priestly blessing on Passover, a tradition of recent decades echoing a pilgrimage from antiquity. With...
Down a Bethlehem alleyway, sunlight illuminates a golden icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, signalling the revival of an ancient art being practised in the workshop inside. The building near the...
Power comes in many forms, but Kamal al-Jebrini's family looked to where others may fear to tread for a new source of it: cow dung. The family has begun recycling waste from its cows to produce...
In troubling political times, New York's latest tourist attraction offers visitors international escapism -- a $40 million installation of 50 nations in miniature: a kind of Gulliver's Travels for...
The Egypt bomb blasts occurred on Palm Sunday; a Christian feast commemorating the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem… Two bomb blasts struck two Coptic Churches in Egypt, killing at least...
Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month state of emergency after attacks on two Coptic churches that left at least 44 dead. The measure allows authorities to make arrests...
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month state of emergency after attacks on two Coptic churches that left at least 44 dead. The measure allows authorities to make arrests...
Two blasts targeting Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday have killed at least 42 people, officials say. In Alexandria, an explosion outside St Mark's Coptic church killed 13 people. Pope...
Christians around the world are marking Palm Sunday today in their respective homes and especially churches. Palm Sunday is the final Sunday before Easter, when Christians use palm crosses to mark...
Members of Iraq's Christian minority celebrated Palm Sunday in the country's main Christian town of Qaraqosh for the first time since it was retaken from the Islamic State group. Hundreds of faithful...
A bomb blast at a church north of Cairo killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens who had gathered for Palm Sunday mass, state media reported, in the latest apparent attack on Egypt's Coptic...
At a hotel in Addis Ababa well-known for hosting jazz greats, thousands of fans lined up on a Saturday night to headbang along with what is still a rarity in Ethiopia's diverse music scene -- a rock...
Co-Host of ‘Starr Drive’on Starr 103.5FM, Anita Erskine, will single-handedly host the 18th edition of Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA), tonight at the Accra International Conference Centre....
Christians in Jerusalem said Thursday that they are hoping for an "open Jerusalem" ahead of Passover and Easter celebrations in the city. Palestinian Christians from the West Bank and Gaza receive...
A Palestinian man carried out a car-ramming next to a bus stop near a settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, killing one Israeli and wounding another, officials said. The incident near the...
Israel's parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of a controversial law against illegal constructions that detractors say will mostly target Arab homes built without required, but hard-to-get,...
The Palestinian women's football team saw a crushing defeat in their first match in Asian Cup qualifiers -- a 6-0 loss to Thailand -- but for captain Claudie Salameh, the score means little. "Playing...
Three months after a landmark UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, the measure has changed little on the ground and some analysts question whether it ever will. Security Council Resolution...
Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday Israel did not seek "adventures" in Gaza after Hamas accused it of assassinating an official, and suggested the group itself could have killed him....
Several hundred mostly Jewish protesters marched in Jerusalem late Saturday to denounce nearly 50 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, police said. The demonstration's...
