JERUSALEM, April 12 (Reuters) - Israel locked down mainly ultra-Orthodox Jewish areas of Jerusalem on Sunday to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus from the densely populated ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Jewish ultra-Orthodox men clashed with Israeli police in central Jerusalem on Sunday during a protest against a Supreme Court order for them to begin enlisting for ...

Palm Sunday, which commemorates Jesus Christ's entry into Jerusalem, was observed by both ... led by Patriarch Theophilos III of the Greek Orthodox Church, Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista ...

What we think of as the Eastern Orthodox Church was created largely within the Byzantine Empire, and the veneration of icons is part ... and their personal entry into paradise.

Protests in Jerusalem against the drafting of ultra-Orthodox Jews into the Israeli military turned violent on Sunday, with demonstrators attacking both law enforcement officers and a minister’s ...