I've heard some people say, "Don't worry about it. Just pray, and everything will be OK." Praying is generally a good idea, but assuming that prayer is like a heavenly ATM machine and that we have an ...

Religious, priests and seminarians gathered in the church near the Garden of Gethsemane today to meet with Pope Francis. Women religious await the arrival of Pope Francis at the church adjacent to the ...

Ritual bath from time of Jesus found at Gethsemane in Jerusalem The Church of Gethsemane (also known as the Church of the Agony or Church of All Nations), located at the foot of the famous Mount of ...

Photo of the excavation of a Byzantine Church in the Garden of Gethsemane carried out jointly by the Israel Antiquities Authority and students from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum. (Credit: Yaniv ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and Friday Focus podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features. A Second Temple-era ...

It's only in the Garden of Gethsemane, when Judas and the Roman soldiers arrive to arrest Jesus, that the early community -- the disciples of men and women, the first church -- finally come to ...

For Salim Badawi, a Greek Orthodox Palestinian from the West Bank village of Beit Jalla, the opportunity to help a group of Franciscan priests harvest olives in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount ...

In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus utters his agonizing prayer, “Abba, Father, for you all things are possible; remove this cup from me; yet, not what I want, but what you want.” At this grave moment ...