Pope Francis opened the "Holy Door" of St Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve on Tuesday, launching the Jubilee year of Catholic celebrations set to draw more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus ...

Katz threatens to assassinate Houthi leaders •IDF fighting continues in Gaza • Israel buys more Arrow air defense missiles.

In the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel, Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took ...

Christmas festivities in Bethlehem have been toned down for a second year running due to the ongoing war in Gaza. Cardinal ...

The pope inaugurated the Catholic Church's historic 2025 Jubilee of "Hope" on Christmas Eve at the Vatican in traditional ceremonies before he addressed thousands of Catholic faithful.

Palestinians pray over the bodies of the victims of an Israeli strike on a home late Saturday before the funeral outside the ...

This Christmas season, activists in New York City and major cities in Europe spread BDS messages wrapped in holiday cheer ...

Palestinian security forces deployed around the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday, as ...

Tehran’s city council on Tuesday approved renaming a street in the Iranian capital after the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, ...

Northern Gaza has seenf intense fighting and stringent aid restrictions during Israel's 14-month conflict with Hamas ...

Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, 14,500 children have been killed, the UNRWA reported, with UNICEF estimating that ...