Following an ancient tradition, this year again a small group of Franciscans from the Custody of the Holy Land, together with some religious men and women who live in Jerusalem, made the annual pilgrimage to the place of St Stephen’s martyrdom on the day the Church celebrates his memory. Medieval pilgrims reported that from this place, outside “St Stephen’s Gate”, as it used to be called by the Christians in the past, or the “Lions’ Gate,” there was a stone […]
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 […]
