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Completed. 1924. The bedrock where Jesus is believed to have prayed. The Church of All Nations, also known as the Church of Gethsemane[ 1 ] or the Basilica of the Agony, is a Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, next to the Garden of Gethsemane. It enshrines a section of bedrock where Jesus is said to have prayed ...
The Assyrian Church of the East[ a ] (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East[ 5 ][ 6 ] and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (HACACE), [ 5 ][ 7 ][ b ] is an Eastern Christian church that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East. [ 9 ]
The Madaba Map, also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map, is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan. The mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Eastern Desert. It contains the oldest surviving original ...
The Church of the Nativity, or Basilica of the Nativity, [ a ] is a basilica located in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine. The grotto holds a prominent religious significance to Christians of various denominations as the birthplace of Jesus. The grotto is the oldest site continuously used as a place of worship in Christianity, and the basilica is ...
Catholic Church in the Middle East. Lebanon has the highest rate of Christians in the Middle East, where the percentage ranges between 39% and 40.5% of its population. (no official census has been made in Lebanon since 1932). The majority of these consists of the Maronite Church based in Beirut, an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with ...
Pope Paul VI celebrated Mass in the new church during his trip to the Holy Land in 1964 [8] The basilica was completed in 1969. [6] Used by the Latin parish, it remains under the control of the Franciscans. It is the largest Christian Church building or sanctuary in the Middle East under the supervision of the Congregation for the Oriental ...
Eastern Catholics are a minority within the Catholic Church; of the 1.3 billion Catholics in communion with the Pope, approximately 18 million are members of the eastern churches. The largest numbers of Eastern Catholics may be found in Eastern Europe, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and India.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Christianity, as it is the purported site of Christ's resurrection. For Christians, the Holy Land is considered holy because of its association with the birth, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, whom Christians regard as the incarnation of God and ...