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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Christian pilgrims

Bella Simanjuntak, left, and Hannah Benyamin walk up Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem on March 31, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
March 31, 2024, 5:04 pm
In a still Jerusalem Old City, Easter pilgrims pray for peace amid fears of war
Undeterred by the conflict keeping most away, a few hardy Christian worshipers from Israel and abroad experience the holiday under unusual circumstances
By Canaan Lidor
This picture taken on January 31, 2024 shows a view of the almost empty Roman Catholic Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth in northern Israel. Nazareth's landmark basilica is empty, the surrounding restaurants, stores and market that thrive on pilgrims are closed, while hotels in the Old City have been shut for months. (Nicolas Garcia/AFP)
February 8, 2024, 8:05 pm
Israel-Hamas war ices hopes for post-pandemic tourism rebound
Foreign tourism, particularly Christian pilgrimage, grinds to a halt due to the war instead of bouncing back with the mitigation of COVID-19 threat
By AFP
Dozens of Orthodox Jews hold signs during a protest outside a Christian Embassy Feast of Tabernacles eventa t the Pais Arena stadium in Jerusalem on October 3, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 5, 2023, 12:40 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 5: Why Orthodox radicals are spitting at the hand that feeds them
Diplomatic reporter Tal Schneider on coalition’s response to latest harassment of Christians in Jerusalem; environment reporter Sue Surkes discusses worrying soft coral discovery
By ToI Staff
A Jewish man seen spitting at Christians in Jerusalem during a parade for the festival of Sukkot on October 4, 2023. (Israel Police)
October 4, 2023, 12:49 pm
5 arrested for spitting at Christians in Jerusalem; police minister: It’s not criminal
Ben Gvir says attacks on pilgrims wrong but ‘not everything justifies an arrest’; MK Rothman: Most in procession were perfectly behaved, police blowing things out of proportion
By ToI Staff
The Basilica of the Transfiguration, a Franciscan church located on Mount Tabor, December 31, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
August 19, 2023, 5:57 pm
Fire service forbids Christian pilgrims from celebrating Feast of Transfiguration
Authorities say church site on Mount Tabor cannot safely contain thousands of tourists, leading to cancellation of event for a second straight year
By ToI Staff
Ethiopian Christian pilgrims attend a Good Friday procession in Jerusalem, Friday, April 14, 2017. (Dan Balilty/AP)
March 14, 2022, 10:10 am
Israel said barring Ethiopian Christian pilgrims from country, for fear they’ll stay
In letter cited by Israeli TV, immigration authorities tell tourism agencies not to let groups because of concerns they won’t return home due to ongoing civil war
By ToI Staff
Token with 'The Nativity,' Syria-Palestine, 6th-7th century CE, Terracotta, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Bequest of Dan Barag, Jerusalem (Courtesy Eli Posner)
December 24, 2020, 7:58 pm
Ancient souvenir was a pocket-sized lamb of Bethlehem for Christian pilgrims
Israel Museum researcher finds rare eulogia token showing both baby Jesus and Church of the Nativity as it may have looked 700 years after his birth
By Jessica Steinberg
'Embarkation of the Pilgrims,' by Robert Walter Weir, circa 1857. (Public domain/ Brooklyn Museum online collection)
November 26, 2020, 1:39 am
Back in 1620, the Pilgrim leader behind the 1st Thanksgiving was Hebrew-obsessed
William Bradford’s ‘Of Plymouth Plantation’ features about 1,000 words in the biblical tongue. But although many early Protestants studied Hebrew, they were hardly philo-Semitic
By Rich Tenorio
A postcard from the collection donated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Courtesy/Hebrew University)
September 24, 2020, 6:07 am
Collector gifts Hebrew U. 130,000 postcards showing Holy Land since Ottoman era
Vast trove provides snapshots documenting experiences and impressions of visitors, including many pilgrims, who toured from 19th-century Ottoman period up to 21st-century Israel
By ToI Staff
A Catholic pilgrim carries a wooden cross along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City during the Good Friday procession on April 19, 2019. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
April 11, 2020, 8:48 am
The Last Supper, Cave of Agony & Via Dolorosa: An Easter guide to the Holy City
Before the virus struck, pilgrims would follow in Jesus’ footsteps from the site of his Passover celebration at the Cenacle to his tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
A Palestinian Authority policeman delivers supplies to the hotel staff which tested positive to coronavirus to a hotel in Bethlehem, West Bank, March 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
March 8, 2020, 3:42 pm
US Christian pilgrims quarantined near Bethlehem turn to prayer, kinship
‘It’s not a great situation, but we’re trying to make the best of it,’ says Alabama pastor whose group is in isolation in the West Bank
By Josef Federman
St. Paul's Church, built by British emissaries in 1873, on what would become Jerusalem's Shivtei Yisrael Street. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
February 22, 2020, 9:19 am
The Jerusalem street beloved by old Europe’s nobles, pilgrims, tycoons, envoys
British missionaries, Swiss bankers, Italians, Romanians and Finns all found their place in the Holy Land on the capital’s historical Shivtei Yisrael Street
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Christian tourists pray inside the Grotto, believed to be the exact spot where Jesus Christ was born, at the Church of the Nativity in the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem on December 21, 2019. (Musa Al SHAER/AFP)
December 22, 2019, 7:20 pm
At Christmas, Bethlehem says it’s denied full gifts of tourism
Palestinian Hotel Association laments that Israeli organized tour groups only make short visits to Christian pilgrimage city
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this December 5, 2019, photo, a Palestinian wearing a Santa Claus costumes welcomes Christian visitors outside the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
December 9, 2019, 10:23 am
Palestinians in Bethlehem look beyond religious tourism
With art and food tours, residents of West Bank city try to find new ways to attract visitors
By Agencies
President Reuven Rivlin speaks during the Climate Conference in Tel Aviv on November 24, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
November 28, 2019, 12:33 pm
Rivlin meets Jordanians, discusses developing Christian sites to ‘build bridges’
Week after King Abdullah II says relations at all-time low, president sits in London with monarch’s chief religious adviser to discuss pilgrimage sites along Jordan River
By ToI Staff
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