JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Holy Fire ceremony symbolising Jesus' resurrection was lit in a deserted Jerusalem on Saturday, without the joyful throng of Orthodox Christian pilgrims who normally attend a ...

Leo XIV then reflected on the order’s mission and affirmed that remaining at the sepulchre of the Lord 'means renewing one’s ...

Worshippers packed the 12th-century basilica, built on the traditional site of Jesus' crucifixion and burial, to witness the Greek patriarch emerge from the Holy Edicule with the sacred flame. The ...

Christians celebrated the centuries-old Holy Fire ceremony at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre on April 19, the Saturday before Easter.

A United Nations envoy accused Israel on Saturday of trying to block him and other diplomats from a pre-Easter “Holy Fire” ritual in the packed Jerusalem church Christians revere as the burial site of ...

After the ceremony a part of the holy relic will be brought to Moscow for the Easter service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior JERUSALEM, April 19. /TASS/. A delegation of Russia’s St. Andrew the ...

MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. The Holy Fire descended into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (the Church of the Resurrection of Christ) in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday, the eve of Easter, Russian television ...

MINSK, 16 April (BelTA) - The lampada-capsule with the Holy Fire from the Holy Sepulchre will be delivered to Belarus in the morning of 20 April, the day of Christ's Resurrection, BelTA learned from ...