The solemnity of the Annunciation was celebrated on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 March at the shrine which commemorates it in Nazareth. The various celebrations were presided over by the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa. Nazareth is the city that guards the place and the memory of the meeting between the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary (Luke 1, 26-38). The excavations by Franciscan friars have identified the area occupied by the ancient village, which medieval and […]
On 11th March we were able to speak to fr. Bahjat Elia Karakach, friar of the Custody of the Holy Land and the parish priest of the community of Aleppo, by phone. After the dramatic earthquake on 6th February which brought Turkey and Syria to their knees, Father Bahjat has been in the front line, with his brothers, providing material aid to the families who have lost their homes and supporting the local population. Father Bahjat, we know that the […]
