“In the first place, John the Baptist makes us rediscover that God calls us from when we are in our mother’s womb.” The friars of the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated the solemnity of the birth of St John the Baptist in Ain Karem, a small town a few kilometres from Jerusalem. As every year, they gathered on the evening of 23 June in the shrine of St John of the Desert for the celebration of the First Vespers […]
Fr. Giorgio Vigna defines them “essential tools”, which can be used by everyone who works for the care and beauty of the Creation. This is how the head of the GPIC (Justice Peace and Integrity of the Creation) Commission for the Custody of the Holy Land introduces the bibliography he has drawn up and which can now be downloaded here. From Franciscan writings to sources of the Holy See or encyclicals, the bibiliography collects the documents necessary for formation and […]
On 26 January 2024, the new seat of the Apostolic Nunciature on Cyprus was inaugurated, in the presence of Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, substitute of the Secretary of State, Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, Apostolic Nuncio in Jordan and Cyprus, Mons. Mauro Lalli, Chargé d’Affaires for Cyprus, fr. Bruno Varriano, Patriarchal Vicar, and numerous religious and civil authorities of the island. The ceremony was also attended by the Custos of the Holy Land, fr. Francesco Patton. The Apostolic Nunciature in […]
