Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...
Some 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by Israeli forces ...
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urged the international community to intervene to enable the Palestinian ...
The first archaeological evidence of extreme asceticism practiced by nuns was discovered in Jerusalem. A female skeleton, found wrapped in chains during an excavation by the Israel Antiquities ...
JERUSALEM, March 10, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli forces destroyed and seized on Monday Palestinian-owned street stalls at the entrance to the town of Anata, northeast of Jerusalem. The forces also issued ...
Professor of art history Kathryn Moore organized a virtual conference on Webex about the sacred art and spaces of Jerusalem featuring scholars and art historians Heba Mostafa, Megan Boomer and ...
Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains.
Thousands of worshipers attended Friday prayer at al-Aqsa compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. Many arrived from the West ...
A limited number of older Palestinians were allowed into Jerusalem on the first Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, in ...
SKELETON remains tied in heavy metal chains from 1,500 years ago have been unearthed – and they belonged to a female practising an extreme religious practice. The shocking discovery, made by ...
Jerusalem District Fire and Rescue teams succeeded in rescuing a horse that fell into a pit near Beit Meir in the Jerusalem ...
A global Jewish educational center based in Jerusalem hosted Muslim, Christian and Jewish community leaders this week, ...