Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, sits in the Church of All Nations March 29, 2026, at a prayer service to mark Palm Sunday, following the cancellation of the ...

Israel barred Catholic officials from privately praying at a historic Jerusalem church for the first time in centuries over security concerns involving the war — sparking outcry from US Ambassador ...

For the first time in centuries, senior Catholic leaders were prevented from entering Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, one of the most sacred days in the Christian calendar, ...

Holy Week in the Holy Land is unfolding in unprecedented silence, as war-related restrictions have left sacred sites largely without the faithful. Israeli authorities, citing security concerns amid ...

Following outcry from political and religious leaders for barring Catholic leaders in the Holy Land from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, Israeli authorities apologized and ...