The third Franciscan peregrination of this Lent took place at the Church of the Flagellation on Wednesday, 30 March. The place is the one that Christian tradition traces back to the flagellation of Jesus, on the basis of the story of the Gospels and of the archaeological evidence that would confirm as being here the exact location of the Antonia Fortress, Pontius Pilate’s residence. The Praetorium was here and it was in its atrium that Christ was undressed and flagellated. […]
A Custody delegation visited Iraq in the days of the Episcopal ordination of the new Syrian Catholic bishop of Mosul, a country scarred by the drama of the Islamic State. The visit to Baghdad Cathedral, theatre of the 2010 massacre. The statue of Our Lady in Basra, where Muslims also stop to pray. Br IBRAHIM FALTAS, ofm Vicar Custody of the Holy Land It was truly was a dream. It was a pilgrimage for us, a delegation on pilgrimage. The […]
