"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 […]
Freshly arrived from Jerusalem, Rome, Trieste, Warsaw, Madrid, Berlin, and Milan, the 30 members of the Scientific Committee of the Terra Sanca Museum confidently returned to the Parisian convent of the Franciscans, which has become familiar to them. Welcomed by Br. Stéphane—in charge of cultural properties at the Custody—and Béatrix Saule, honorary director general at the Château de Versailles, the members found themselves happily taking up conversations which had been left in abeyance since the last reunion. Soon, however, the […]
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 […]
