The solemnity eagerly awaited by the whole of the Christian world, Christmas Eve, was this year again celebrated in Bethlehem, culminating in the nocturnal mass of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of numerous pilgrims, faithful and religious who wanted to be in his birthplace. The celebrations were presided by the Latin Patriarch His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa. In the morning, at the seat of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Mons. Pizzaballa received Fr. Amjad Sabbara, parish […]
From January 9th, 2020, a new catalog published by Edizioni Terra Sancta is available for purchase. The volume, Selected Works, is a compendium of some pieces from the archaeological and art-history collections of the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land, selected under the supervision of Dr. Sara Cibin, historian of Italian art and project manager of the Terra Sancta Museum. “The idea was born from the desire to make public the best of the collection and to have a way […]
He is the first Syrian to have been appointed a bishop for his own people. On Sunday 17 September, fr. Hanna Jallouf, a Franciscan of the Custody of the Holy Land, will be ordained Bishop and will take on the position of Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo of the Latins, with jurisdiction over all the Catholics of the Latin rite in Syria. With penetrating light blue eyes, he was born 71 years ago in Khaye, in northern Syria, a land which […]
