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The search is on for a new CEO of Jericho Road Community Health Center in Buffalo. Dr. Myron Glick is ready to step down from the organization he founded.

In honor of this week's spring holidays, ToI's environment reporter describes a date palm that was brought back from the dead ...

Money, Lies, and God” argues that the failed January 6 insurrection didn’t discourage those who want to dismantle the ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, called on Christians in the Holy Land to “hope against all hope” during a difficult time.

Jesus is not mentioned in the texts ... of real estate—a day’s donkey ride to Jerusalem, a two-hour walk to Jericho and a stroll to docks and settlements along the sea. And a closer look ...

The Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Rev Graham Usher, has recorded a series of Easter messages during his recent visit to Jerusalem ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about the truth behind the Easter story.

Dismas’ endurance beyond Jesus’ death is what makes him a companion to the long-suffering. He has gone before those for whom, ...