A perfect view of northern Israel from Mount Tabor
The pine-covered mountain offers a wonderful vantage point and the peak houses churches built in commemoration of the Transfiguration.
The pine-covered mountain offers a wonderful vantage point and the peak houses churches built in commemoration of the Transfiguration.
Christmas 2015 festivities in Israel include Midnight Mass, carol concerts, market shopping and holiday-themed tours.
A woman artist creates Christian icons for sale in the Old City of Jerusalem.
A lone candle burns at the entrance to the Aedicule at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Pilgrims are baptised in the Jordan River.
The Galilee hometown of Jesus is a delightful place to visit any time of year, but especially during the Christmas season.
Although just two percent of the Israeli population identifies as Christian, Christmas markets do a brisk business in December.
Jerusalem joins global interfaith action on climate change with unprecedented solar light march around the Old City walls.
Thousands of Christian Evangelists attended a parade in Jerusalem to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
Village Flavors festival in the Druze town of Julis will provide a taste of authentic dishes as well as a celebration of the Druze way of life.
Nuns celebrate the death and resurrection of the Virgin Mary in Israel this week.
Items include fragments from Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, early New Testament Scriptures, Cairo genizah, illuminated biblical manuscripts and Gutenberg Bible.
The birthplace of Jesus is usually a quick stop on Christian tourist itineraries. A new group is hoping to make it much more.
This Christmas season, two new sites — devoted to the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene – are ready for visitors.
Pilgrims from Italy, Brazil, Spain, UK , Japan, Poland, the Palestinian Authority and neighboring countries took part in the festivities.