Syria's small Druze community largely kept out of the country's long civil war but since president Bashar al-Assad's ouster ...

Pope Francis has designated 2025 a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, and NJ travel agencies hope a fragile ceasefire in ...

Hundreds of clerics from Syria's Druze minority on Friday are heading to Israel where they will conduct a pilgrimage to a sacred shrine, the second su ...

In 2013, a Charleston women celebrated Mass with Pope Francis. Carmen Schachte, who is Puerto Rican, is proud of the 1st ...

The pilgrimages were organized amid vocal Israeli support for Syria’s Druze community in the wake of Assad’s ouster, even as Jerusalem remains wary of Damascus’s new Islamist leadership.

From walking along the ancient paths in Jerusalem to joining candlelit processions in Latin America, each of the holy places aroound the world carries its own sense of peace and devotion. These ...

Archaeologists have deciphered ancient inscriptions at the site traditionally believed to be where Jesus held the Last Supper ...

Archaeologists uncovered hidden inscriptions and graffiti left by medieval pilgrims on the walls of the Cenacle, the site of ...

The seven Roman churches in the pilgrimage include the four papal basilicas: St. Peter’s Basilica, the Basilica of St. John ...