"And I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the powers of hell shall not prevail against it. To you I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." With these words Jesus gives Peter authority over the Church, making the apostle the first among the Twelve. In Tiberias, […]
The Biblical-Theological Continuing Education Course (CABT) organized by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum is being held at the St Saviour Convent in Jerusalem from 23rd to 26th April 2019. "Prophetism and Apocalyptics” is the subject chosen to be studied by the one hundred and thirty participants of the course. Conceived by FatherBellarmino Bagatti, the course was initially for the continuing education of religious but was then extended to include teachers of religion and lay experts on Biblical subjects, especially since when […]
The Custos of the Holy Land, fr. Francesco Patton, returned from his trip to Syria on 12th March. He had spent ten days visiting the friars and the communities affected by the violent earthquake of 6th February, which sowed destruction and death in an area already harshly put to the test by the war. After a short stop in the community of Damascus, he spent time in particular in Aleppo, the place most affected and where most of the work […]
