The Gospel of Mark (14:32, 37) recounts how Jesus and his disciples arrived at a place called Gethsemane, where He found them sleeping. This biblical episode serves as a powerful metaphor, ...

Since someone crushed the feet from a Baby Jesus statue and decapitated another of a disciple, a downtown area landmark is closed until further notice. The vandalism happened during the Christian Holy ...

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 ...

Olive tree cuttings from the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem, where Jesus spent the night ahead of his crucifixion, are thriving in a tiny rural community in southern New South Wales. When Jim Speer ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a bitter cold February day—the kind of day that Chicago is famous for, and the kind of day that makes lifelong residents wonder why they haven’t broken down and moved to Miami—when I first ...

What does “Gethsemane” mean personally to you? What thoughts and feelings does it evoke in your mind and heart? It was truly a sobering and humbling experience to visit this sacred site recently with ...