AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — At a recent Sunday mass, Arab Christians enthusiastically joined in the ancient chants and prayers of their faith — until the name of their spiritual leader was invoked. “Unworthy ...

The Rev. Meletios Zafaran is preaching on the birth of John the Baptist. He’s speaking in Arabic, so not everyone in the congregation understands what he’s saying. During the Sunday evening sermon, he ...

A PALESTINE ARAB DELEGATION TOURING THE BALKANS TO SEEK SUPPORT FOR THE HOLY LAND ARABS ARRIVED HERE FROM ISTANBUL TODAY AND WAS RECEIVED BY PATRIARCH MIRON CHRISTEA, SUPREME ORTHODOX PRELATE IN ...

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In a conference held in the city of Nazareth on Thursday night, the local Roman Orthodox denomination accused Patriarch Irinuis I of selling church properties to the Jewish Agency and of stealing ...

JERUSALEM – Israel's central bank chief says demographic changes such as aging and the larger proportion of Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews in society threaten the country's long-term growth prospects.

Ziv Yehezkel is a man full of contradictions. He is at once a deeply religious Jewish man, but also a zealous lover of Arabic music. The soloist of Arab Orchestra of Nazareth, the 31 year-old was born ...

Last weekend we celebrated Easter and Passover. Now Pascha is upon us. The Rev. Gregory-Francis Des Marais of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Albany spoke with Robert Brill and shared these ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Arab bus driver in Israel turned in $10,000 in cash that turned out to belong to a haredi Orthodox passenger. The driver for the Afikim bus company found the wad last Thursday on ...

Church members in blue T-shirts and hair nets doled out gyros, falafel sandwiches and lemonade to the hungry visitors forming lines next to the big white tent set up in the roped-off parking lot.

In this Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015 photo, Jordanian Orthodox Christians pray during Sunday Mass service at the Presentation of the Lord Church, in Amman, Jordan. At a recent Sunday mass, Arab Christians ...