Israel Midway between Jerusalem and Bethlehem lie the largely ignored remains of one of the Holy Land’s biggest churches — and probably the first of them dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The Kathisma church was built around a rock where early Christian tradition says that Mary rested while on her way with Joseph from […]
Israel The patriarch Abraham pitched his tent and dug a well at Beersheba, a wilderness location identified in the Scriptures as the southern limit of the Promised Land. About 2000 years before Christ, God had called Abraham, originally from Mesopotamia, to leave his family and possessions and journey to a new land — with the […]
West Bank The Tombs of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron is the burial place of three biblical couples — Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Leah. The second holiest site in Judaism (after the Western Wall in Jerusalem), it is also sacred to the other two Abrahamic […]
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Jordan The remains of the oldest known map of the Holy Land, painstakingly assembled from more than a million pieces of coloured stone, lie on the floor of a church in the Jordanian city of Madaba. This unique art treasure was designed by an unknown artist and constructed in a Byzantine cathedral in the middle […]