As dusk fell on Wednesday 17 March in Jerusalem the weekly peregrination of Lent took place. The third place designated for following in the footsteps of the passion of Jesus is the Franciscan shrine of the Flagellation, at the beginning of the Via Dolorosa. The church stands in the space occupied by the Antonia Fortress, which the Franciscans bought in 1838. Thanks to the generosity of Maximilian of Baviera, it was possible to reopen the church for worship. It was […]
In the Holy Land, the past few weeks have been full of meetings between the local Jewish communities and the Custody of the Holy Land, due to many celebrations falling at the same time. For some time now, the two religious group have been engaged in a relationship of inter-religious dialogue which is also expressed in small daily gestures. In this period, there have been inparticular three meetings which we want to recall: the two days of the Open House […]
