Thousands of worshippers are crowding a Jerusalem shrine to celebrate Orthodox Christianity’s Easter Week holy fire ritual.

Israel must control all of Jerusalem forever, said former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, taking a stand against a key compromise that could seal an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

To determine whether or not the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene were in two limestone boxes discovered in a Jerusalem suburb, the filmmakers of a new documentary turned to statisticians.

POPE BENEDICT XVI yesterday urged the use of diplomacy to defuse nuclear crises, in a clear reference to worries over Iran, and prayed that Palestinians would have their own state alongside that of Israel.

Pope Benedict XVI, in his first Easter message as pontiff, today urged the use of diplomacy to defuse nuclear crises in a clear reference to worries over Iran, and prayed that Palestinians would have their own state alongside that of Israel.

AT least 11 Filipino devotees were nailed to the cross during Good Friday reenactments of Christ's final hours.

Rival priests got into a fight in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Christianity’s holiest shrine in Jerusalem, after arguing over whether a door in the basilica should be closed during a procession.