On the Sunday after Christmas, the solemnity of the Holy Family is celebrated in Nazareth. It was in this city in Galilee that St Joseph established the home of his family after returning from Egypt. In the shadow of the Basilica of the Annunciation, built to remember the pace where Mary received the angel’s announcement, there stands the smaller St Joseph's church, on top of what tradition indicates as the house where Jesus grew up with Joseph and Mary “and was […]
The meeting between St Francis and the Sultan of Egypt al-Malek al-Kāmel in 1219, and now taken as a precursor model of interreligious dialogue, has become the subject of a new opera produced by the Custody of the Holy Land and performed for the first time in Lebanon in the form of a concert on 6 November 2021, in the church of S Elias in Beirut and on 7 November in Tripoli in the church of St Marouan, in collaboration […]
On 22 April 2024 King Abdullah II, the current monarch of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and his wife, Queen Rania took part in a meeting with personalities and representatives of Madaba on Mount Nebo, where they were welcomed by the Franciscan community. Fra Bernard Thilagarajah, guardian since October 2022 of the convent on Mount Nebo told us about the exceptional visit by the King and the Queen during their visit to the Governorate of Madaba. “The meeting,” said Fra Bernard, […]
