The custos serves as a unique provincial minister within the Franciscan order, leading a community of friars while also being ...

While few Holy Land Christians will be able to travel to Rome for the special yearlong celebration, they will celebrate the jubilee where the Church began. The Diocese of Jerusalem launched the ...

Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, Apostolic Nuncio to Jordan, highlighted this unity: “One of the very first trips of a Pope outside of Italy in modern times was Pope Paul VI landing in Amman in ...

Dr. DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author, most recently, of “Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.” If you work at a ...

In 2022, 39% of agricultural land was rented – a proportion that has remained relatively stable for over 50 years. When deciding how to acquire land, rising farm real estate values can be a valuable ...

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction. Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy ...

Though the state might be the ultimate authority in deciding the fate of the land and its resources, it is nevertheless bound by obligations enshrined in the Constitution and laws of the land to ...

Holding tridents, swords, spears and small two-headed drums, ash-smeared Hindu holy men marched and rode chariots at sunrise toward the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati ...

Gavin Newsom is stepping in to block land speculators. In an executive order issued Tuesday, Newsom temporarily banned "unsolicited undervalued offers" to buy properties in 15 specific fire ...

Nearly 15 million take holy dip, six times more than expected Devout Hindus march praising Lord Shiva, Mother Ganga PM Modi says festival is celebration of faith and harmony PRAYAGRAJ, India ...