The Jerusalem municipality intends to discuss a new plan for the expansion of illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.

Nivine Sandouka is a Palestinian lifelong human rights activist and feminist, and is the current regional director of ...

Palestinian Christians marked a solemn Easter in northern Gaza, as Israeli forces continued to lay siege to the enclave’s ...

The United Nations chief has appointed a British human rights activist to carry out a strategic review of the U.N. agency ...

On the Saturday before Easter, thousands of Christians gather in the dark and cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulcher for a ...

The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, on Tuesday hailed Pope Francis's support for Gazans and ...

Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X of Antioch described Pope Francis as a bearer of a lofty Christian mission, noting that his ...

Thousands of Christians gathered at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for the centuries-old Holy Fire ceremony, ...

Participation in Holy Saturday and Easter ceremonies has been visibly reduced amid relentless Israeli attacks in Gaza, West ...

An advisory opinion by judges at the United Nations’ highest court that said Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories ...

Thousands of Jewish worshippers visited a Jerusalem holy site during the holiday of Passover as far-right Israeli lawmaker ...

Israel captured east Jerusalem, including the Old City with major sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims, in the 1967 Mideast war, and annexed it in a move not recognized internationally.