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Hundreds of cloaked clergymen have marched through the narrow alleyways of the Old City of Jerusalem to lay its longtime Armenian Patriarch to rest.Torkom Manoogian died Oct. 12 after being hospitalized since January with cardiac problems. He was 93.Since his election in 1990, Manoogian led a dwindling following of Armenians in Jerusalem. One of the four quarters of the Old City belongs to them. Armenians have a 1,600-year presence in the city. But a combination of political forces and the draw of a better life elsewhere have seen their numbers quietly drop below 1,000 people.Manoogian previously led the Armenian church in the United States and was outspoken about the 1915 Armenian genocide committed against his people....
Two decorated covers of coffins that once contained mummies have been seized by Israeli authorities, authenticated and dated to thousands of years ago in ancient Egy...
After decades of shying away from an ancient pilgrimage route, Muslims are visiting Jerusalem to pray at Islam's third-holiest site, the revered Al-Aqsa mosque.In do...
Two decorated covers of coffins that once contained mummies have been seized by Israeli authorities, authenticated and dated to thousands of years ago in ancient Egy...
An ancient royal garden has come back into bloom in a way, as scientists have reconstructed what it would've looked like some 2,500 years ago in the kingdom of the b...
President Obama on Wednesday called it "dangerous" that Israel plans to add 900 new apartments to an existing Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem -- an area Palestin...
President Obama brushed off criticism over his administration's inaccurate reporting on job creation Wednesday, telling Fox News the accounting is an "inexact scienc...
Israeli police say they have arrested a convicted American pedophile who had fled the U.S.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says police detectives, working on a tip f...
Israeli police say they have arrested a convicted American pedophile who had fled the U.S.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says police detectives, working on a tip f...
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Pope Benedict delivers Easter Sunday mass
Israel has agreed to allow a mission from UNESCO, the U.N.'s cultural arm, to visit the Old City of Jerusalem next month, a small victory for those hoping to end the...
A tiny golden bell pulled after 2,000 years from an ancient sewer beneath the Old City of Jerusalem was shown Sunday by Israeli archaeologists, who hailed it as a ra...
Israeli police have entered Jerusalem's holiest site to disperse hundreds of Palestinians who were throwing rocks.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Palestinian w...
Israeli Ambassador to the UN on escalating attacks, Hamas
Throughout his long political career, Israel's prime minister has earned a reputation as a tough talker. An ardent hawk who wrote a book about how to defeat terroris...
Mitt Romney has visited one of Judaism's most holy sites.The U.S. presidential candidate, who's on a pre-election trip to burnish his foreign-policy credentials, vis...
Researchers say carving of whale may be Christian relic