Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wad Khalafalla had never planned on visiting Saudi Arabia, but at some point she started to feel like she was being drawn there.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Debris from missiles and interceptors has fallen in and around Jerusalem’s Old City, including near some of the most holy sites in ...

Sacred sites around the world face an uncomfortable paradox. The very tourism that brings awareness and economic support also contributes to their degradation. Every year, millions of visitors arrive ...

Israel markets itself as “the land of creation” — and for good reason. Israel is home to the Holy Land, to a plethora of beautiful landscapes, and certain traditions argue that the spot where God ...

The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of extraordinary.

Today, “sacred” is a broad and generously deployed word. Sporting areas are sacred, bedrooms too. The English word emerged in the late Middle Ages to connote the bread and wine of Eucharist, but its ...

Patriarch Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, center left, performs the Washing of the Feet ceremony, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, after restrictions were lifted ...

RIYADH — The Ministry of Commerce has carried out more than 23,000 preventive inspection tours in Makkah, Madinah, the miqats, roads leading to the Two Holy Mosques, and the holy sites since the ...

Walking among these ancient carvings, it becomes clear this Michigan park holds a cultural story far older than it first ...