The events of the Jubilee Year are continuing in Bethlehem as well and the pupils of the Terra Santa College set off, with songs and prayers, for the Shepherds’ Field. Pupils from the sixth to the eleventh grade (aged 11 to 16), accompanied by their teachers and the head teacher of the school, Fra George Haddad, walked together through the streets of Bethlehem in the direction of the Shepherds’ Field, where they then celebrated a Mass in the Croatian chapel, […]
“It is very important that music reaches as many people as possible in Jerusalem, and that it can be a fundamental part in the life of our local Christian community.” With these words, Jamil Freij, a teacher at the Magnificat Institute in Jerusalem, that he tells of his passion for music. He was born and grew up in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and is one of the many “Living Stones”: people who are, for one […]
Fourteen years have passed since the start of the Syrian civil war and just over three months since the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad. “We could summarize the climate in Syria today with the word uncertainty,” says Fra Bahjat Karakach, the Latin Parish priest of Aleppo. “The fall of the regime does not automatically mean a good situation. We are going through a very difficult phase: the old certainties are no longer there and we do not know […]
The first Congress of commissaries of the Holy Land of Asia was held from 7 to 12 February in Jakarta and Bali (Indonesia) on the topic of “Formation and mission in communion.” The Custos’ delegate for the Commissaries of the Holy Land, Fra Silvio De la Fuente was present . Fra Robertus Wowor, commissary of the Holy Land since 2008 for Indonesia, who hosted the meeting, emphasized that for him “the greatest challenge is to make known the Holy Land […]
