The fourth peregrination in Lent in the Holy Land started in Bethany, in the shrine that stands behind the Mount of Olives in the village of the friends of Jesus, Martha, Mary and Lazarus, known today by its Arabic name of al-Azariya. On Thursday 18 March at 6.30 in the morning, the Secretary of the Holy Land, Fr. Marco Carrara, presided a mass in the tomb of Lazarus, the grotto located quite near the Franciscan church where, according to the […]
Outside the Latin parish of “St Francis”, the ruins of the buildings destroyed by ten years of war in Syria, resist unchanged, reminding us that Aleppo is still a wounded city. Even though the spotlights of the world are no longer focused on the Syrian crisis, the people of Aleppo continue their daily battle, to rebuild their homes, families and hearts. The Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, who serve the Latin parish of Aleppo, know all […]
