MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. The Holy Fire descended into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (the Church of the Resurrection of Christ) in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday, the eve of Easter, Russian television ...

A handful of priests celebrated Easter on Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was crucified and resurrected. Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa ...

Christians celebrated the centuries-old Holy Fire ceremony at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre on April 19, the Saturday before Easter.

Worshippers packed the 12th-century basilica, built on the traditional site of Jesus' crucifixion and burial, to witness the Greek patriarch emerge from the Holy Edicule with the sacred flame. The ...

Hundreds of pilgrims filed into Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Jesus's resurrection, for Easter celebrations on Sunday. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is built at ...

A United Nations envoy accused Israel on Saturday of trying to block him and other diplomats from a pre-Easter “Holy Fire” ritual in the packed Jerusalem church Christians revere as the burial site of ...

The descent of the Holy Fire takes place on the eve of Easter according to the Julian calendar TEL AVIV, April 19. /TASS/. A delegation of Russia’s St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation has received ...

MINSK, 16 April (BelTA) - The lampada-capsule with the Holy Fire from the Holy Sepulchre will be delivered to Belarus in the morning of 20 April, the day of Christ's Resurrection, BelTA learned from ...