For more than 20 years, German-born Nikodemus Schnabel has lived as a Benedictine monk in Jerusalem. Last year, he was elected abbot of his community. Its monastery, Dormition Abbey, is an important ...

A nun has been attacked, the door of the Armenian cathedral has been spat upon, symbols of the faith have been desecrated.

JERUSALEM — Israeli officials were again on the defensive in late February, after arsonists damaged a Greek Orthodox seminary next to the Dormition Abbey church complex on Mount Zion in Jerusalem.

Violence against Christians in Jerusalem continues to make the news following an incident on Feb. 3 when Father Nikodemus Schnabel, the abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition, was attacked by ...

Jerusalem — Israeli police on Thursday arrested an American tourist after he allegedly knocked down and broke a statue of Jesus in a church in Jerusalem's Old City. Images on social media showed the ...

The abbot of Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion fears that the “Holy Land could become a kind of ‘Christian Disneyland’” where ...

Following a widespread backlash, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked “relevant authorities” to allow Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch, to hold services at ...