"Learn to do good, make justice your aim" (Isaiah 1:17) is the topic chosen for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023, which in Jerusalem implicated the many Christian confessions present in the Holy Land. Nine prayer meetings which were held from 21st to 29th January, every day in a different place, attended by faithful and religious confirmed the ecumenical spirit of the communities taking part (Anglicans, Armenians, Lutherans, Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Syrian and Ethiopian communities and Catholics […]
In the Middle East, organ music is perceived as a specific repertoire of high quality that Christians can offer the culture of the different countries, as organs are present almost exclusively in churches. This is why the Custody of the Holy Land established the Terra Sancta Organ Festival in 2014 in the places where it is present. In Lebanon, the festival is organized together with Notre Dame University and takes the name of the Lebanese Pipe Organ Week, which this […]
At Terra Sancta High School in Jerusalem a time of prayer for peace and reflection starring children and young students. They asked for the gift of peace from God, but also from the rulers. Peace for their land, for their peers under the bombs, and for all those who have the right to hope for the future. "One day," said Brother Francis Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, "in a difficult society like the Middle East, they will have to be […]
