Pope israel visit

Pope’s 1964 Holy Land trip laid foundations for ties with Israel

‘This visit could be of enormous historical importance,’ Paul VI said

A statue near the Church of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor marking Pope Paul VI’s visit to the Holy Land.
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Next year, Your Majesty

Pope Francis is shown on several large screens as he celebrates mass at Madison Square Garden in New York

Pope Francis takes New York

Then-Pope Benedict XVI (R) shakes hands with former chief rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome's main synagogue January 17, 2010.

Rabbi Elio Toaff, who ushered in era of closer ties between Jews and Vatican, dies at 99


A righteous pontiff

Pope Francis’s warm reputation preceded his visit to the Holy Land and he was greeted mostly with wide approval.

Pope Francis is greeted by Israeli children after landing on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, on May 25

Pope wades into troubled Mideast waters with 'joint prayer for peace'

Since becoming pope in March 2013, Francis has not shied away from tackling prickly issues, including the church’s history of sexual abuse.

Pope Francis (C) stands next to Sheikh Mohammad Hussein (L), the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem as the Dome of the Rock is seen in the background.

Le ciel judéo-chrétien au beau fixe

Les rencontres interreligieuses des 25 et 26 mai, dans le sillage du voyage papal, ont été, au-delà de l’énorme événement médiatique, de la plus grande importance pour les communautés juives et chrétiennes. Décryptage

Le pape Francois serre la main du Grand Rabbin ashkenaze d'Israel

May 30: More on the pope’s visit

Here is a man of intelligence who, I cannot conceive, is unaware of what the Palestinians were doing when they pushed him to the security barrier.

Letters 370

Peres and Abbas to pray for peace at Vatican on June 8

Pope Francis invited the two leaders to hold an unprecedented prayer meeting during his trip to the Holy Land last week; Pontiff hopes prayer meeting will create atmosphere to foster eventual resumption of talks.

Pope Francis meets President Shimon Peres

Inside Out: The context question

Criticism of hate crimes allows Israelis to condemn their perpetrators and distinguish their country from the people who commit them.

Pope Francis shakes hands with Chief Rabbi David Lau (L) during a meeting in Jerusalem May 26, 2014

May 29: Nothing new

Our readers react to the Jerusalem Post's latest stories and a correction.

Letters 370

Washington Watch: Has peace got a prayer?

If neither side in the conflict is ready to recognize the other’s legitimacy and abandon rigid ideology in favor of reconciliation, peace doesn’t have a prayer, in any faith.

Pope Francis at the President’s Residence.

Chief rabbi to pope: Establish interfaith anti-violence confab

Rabbi David Lau says condemnation of anti-Semitism and hate crimes in words alone is insufficient.

Pope Francis shakes hands with Chief Rabbi David Lau (L) during a meeting in Jerusalem May 26, 2014

No Holds Barred: Pope Francis and the need to confront evil

When the pope prays in front of graffiti that compares Bethlehem to the Warsaw Ghetto, he risks being trivializing the Holocaust.

Pope kisses hand of Holocaust survivor at Yad Vashem

Police detain 3 yeshiva students planning to disrupt Pope’s mass at King David’s Tomb

Apart from Monday’s detainments, police applaud "successful 2-day intensive security operation."

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past a banner depicting Pope Francis, in Jerusalem's Old City