The Transfiguration of Jesus traditionally took place ... One of the most beautiful churches in Israel, the massive two-story church became the largest in the Middle East when it was completed in 1969 ...

Others from the movement preached virulent racism, identified with a renewal of fascist values, and committed a wave of church burnings ... the battle for that transfiguration every day ...

In the address, Pope Francis referred to the transfiguration ... Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, saying that these troubled countries remain in his ...

ROME — For the first time since Pope Francis was hospitalized in mid-February, the Vatican press office released a photograph of him March 16; the image shows him concelebrating Mass that morning in ...

Israel Iluz, a Messianic Jewish pastor of Congregation Kiryat Shmona, in Northern Israel. Israel Iluz, Messianic Jewish ...

In the U.S., the idea elicited enthusiasm among conservative Christians who hoped that the Jews’ return to Israel would help ...

“The most common form of physical harassment is spitting—a long-standing issue that has escalated from subtle incidents to ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. Some 2,000 years ago, olive trees and grapevines likely grew on the land where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in ...

Recent protests on racial justice have also questioned the portrayal of Jesus as a white man. An art historian explains how ...

Israel has repeatedly used food and international humanitarian aid as a tool of collective pressure against Palestinians over 17 months of its devastating war on the Gaza Strip. Civilians in the ...

Israel struck Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire. Israel struck Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets ...