One of the world’s oldest churches sits in small town in the West Bank
Burqin, a town in the northern West Bank, is home to one of the oldest churches in the world, the Church of the Ten Lepers, where Jesus Christ is said to have performed a miracle of healing lepers who were confined in the church’s cave.
Taghreed Ali | Palestine | Jan 28, 2021
Alexander Smirnov, the deputy director general of Metrojet, attends a press conference in Moscow on Nov. 2, 2015, following the crash of a Russian passenger jet that crashed in Egypt three days earlier. The crash, caused by an Islamic State bomb, led to the suspension of Russian charter flights for five and a half years.
