The Jerusalem Municipality has decided to withdraw its support for a plan to build a large hotel and commercial complex on a beauty spot known to locals as Bible Hill. Carpeted in wildflowers in ...

Archaeologists excavating in Jerusalem have found burned artifacts dating from 2,600 years ago – which prove that a passage in the Bible is true. Researchers uncovered charred wood, grape seeds, fish ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Residents of Wadi Hilweh, a Palestinian neighborhood in the East Jerusalem community of Silwan, awake in the middle of the night to a shaking of their homes and, from below, the sounds of heavy ...

The Madaba Map, or the Madaba Mosaic Map, is a sixth century AD depiction of the Holy Land, believed to be among the oldest known portrayals of Jerusalem. Discovered in a Byzantine church in Madaba, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Presentation of the Shem Tov Bible at the National Library of Israel. (photo credit: Ariel Baron) The Shem Tov Bible, a stunning ...

Wednesday marked a significant point in American political history as President Trump formally announced recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and plans to move the U.S. embassy to ...

The Shem Tov Bible, a stunning 14th-century manuscript created by the renowned kabbalist Rabbi Shem Tov ben Abraham Ibn Gaon, will be displayed in the National Library of Israel. The National Library ...