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Berlin food
fromThe Washington Post
3 days ago

It's Holy Week, but Jerusalem's Old City is quiet and eerily empty

The Austrian Pilgrim Hospice in Jerusalem experiences an unusually empty Holy Week due to wartime conditions and security restrictions.
fromMail Online
1 week ago

Jesus's final journey before the crucifixion revealed

The journey begins at the Temple Mount, where Jesus is said to have taught daily and, according to the Book of Matthew 21:12-17, 'cleansed the temple' of merchants and money changers seven days before his death.
History
Europe news
fromwww.dw.com
1 week ago

Israeli police block Catholic leaders from Palm Sunday Mass

Israeli police blocked Catholic leaders from marking Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre due to security concerns amid the Iran war.
History
fromConde Nast Traveler
1 week ago

Reconnecting With Cyprus, the Complex Isle of My Childhood

Cyprus is a culturally rich island grappling with its modern identity amidst a complex history of migration and foreign influence.
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World politics
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

Sheltering in Jerusalem and Looking at the Iran War

Israel faces uncertainty about whether Trump will support Netanyahu's preemptive military strategy against Iran and other regional threats.
History
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Thessaloniki: Remembering the 'Jerusalem of the Balkans'

Thessaloniki's Jewish community was nearly annihilated during the Holocaust, with around 48,000 deported to Auschwitz from 1943.
Washington DC
fromThe Atlantic
4 weeks ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Middle East Geography

The Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait sit 2.4 miles apart, with Little Diomede belonging to the U.S. and Big Diomede to Russia, separated by the international date line creating a 21-hour time difference.
World politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
4 weeks ago

Pax Israeliana for the Middle East

Israel is reshaping the Middle East's political and territorial order through military action, replacing the century-old Sykes-Picot framework with a new regional hegemony backed by the Trump-Netanyahu alliance.
London food
fromCN Traveller
1 month ago

I visited my homeland to see if I could fall back in love with this fierce Mediterranean isle - this is what I discovered

Cyprus attracts visitors through its mythological heritage and Mediterranean beauty, while representing a complex homeland shaped by migration, occupation, and personal identity struggles.
Science
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Biblical earthquake during Jesus' crucifixion confirmed

A 2012 geological study found seismic evidence near the Dead Sea suggesting earthquakes occurred around 31 BC and between 26-36 AD, potentially supporting the Gospel account of an earthquake during Jesus' crucifixion.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Greetings from Jordan's Wadi Rum desert, where patches of green emerge after winter rains

A Bedouin desert region transforms seasonally from barren sand to vibrant green vegetation after winter rains, supporting unique flora and wildlife including camels and desert truffles.
Travel
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Greetings from Acre, Israel, where an old fortress recalls the time of the Crusades

Acre (Akko) is an ancient, multicultural coastal city with layered history and tourism curtailed by nearby conflict, hoping for visitors to return.
Mindfulness
fromIndependent
2 months ago

'I might not have found Jesus in Jordan, but for a moment I felt my grandparents'

Grandparents brought River Jordan water from a pilgrimage and used it for the narrator's baptism, linked to family faith and an 'angelic baby' claim.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Sara in Southern Lebanon

Sara in Southern Lebanon On the Ground Her video diary shares her two-year journey of escaping to Beirut, followed by the difficulties of trying to return home. This video diaries was produced in collaboration with the Global Reporting Centre. Video Duration 03 minutes 58 seconds 03:58 Video Duration 03 minutes 12 seconds 03:12 Video Duration 04 minutes 35 seconds 04:35 Video Duration 03 minutes 51 seconds 03:51
World news
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Long-lost rivers of the Bible point to the Garden of Eden

The Book of Genesis describes Eden as a paradise watered by a single river that split into four: Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates. While the Tigris and Euphrates are well-known rivers in modern-day Iraq, the Pishon and Gihon have long been lost to history, until now. The dry riverbed, called Wadi al-Batin, stretches from the western highlands of Hejaz near Medina northeast to the northern Persian Gulf near Kuwait.
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World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Wary of Israeli appropriation, Palestine lists 14 sites with UNESCO

The Palestinian Authority submitted 14 Gaza and West Bank sites to UNESCO's tentative World Heritage list to protect Palestinian cultural heritage from appropriation and attacks.
History
fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Discover the Secrets of the Bible's Oldest and Strangest Texts

Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest known biblical manuscripts, diverse texts (biblical, apocryphal, sectarian, unknown) that complicated but did not completely upend understanding of Christianity.
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