The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

Suzanne Landau, director of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, reflects on the institution’s past, present, and future.

Stranger still, the history of the emotions has been one of the liveliest fields in the discipline in recent years, and medieval figurative art has often fallen into ... to the Church of the Holy ...

A Christian clergy man stands by a portrait of the late Pope Francis on a easel ahead of a memorial mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre — JOHN WESSELS Tears mixed with smiles as a dense crowd ...

Lubna Masarwa is a journalist and Middle East Eye’s Palestine and Israel bureau chief, based in Jerusalem. Middle East Eye delivers independent and unrivalled coverage and analysis of the Middle ...

The Whitefield Art Collective’s exhibition this year, themed The Future is Now, houses two exhibits in particular – Mapping Bengaluru and Bengaluru in Focus – that together offer an in-depth ...

Since the earliest days of his papacy, Pope Francis viewed the Middle East not only as the birthplace of civilisations and faiths, but as a region bleeding from decades of war, occupation, extremism ...

Christie’s announced its online auction of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art, live for browsing from April 17 and open for bidding from April 24 to May 8. Reflecting the dynamic art scene in ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — On the Saturday before Easter, thousands of Christians gather in the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulcher for a centuries-old ceremony known as the Holy Fire. Holding unlit ...

Eastern Orthodox Christians believe the light miraculously appears inside the Holy Edicule, built on the traditional site of Jesus’ tomb, while skeptics going back to the Middle Ages have ...

The Room of the Last Supper, also known as the Cenacle, is located on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. The hall was built by the Crusaders in the 12th century, though pilgrims have venerated the site as ...