On Friday 4th and Saturday 5th December, His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa, recently appointed Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, in the respect of tradition, made his solemn entrance into the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre and then celebrated a Solemn Mass. Starting out from the Latin Patriarchate, the delegation of Franciscan friars, together with that of the Patriarchate reached the Jaffa Gate, one of the entrances into the old city of Jerusalem: it is from this gate that the personalities to whom […]
The thirty-fifth apostolic journey abroad by Pope Francis, which started in Cyprus, came to an end on Monday 6 December in Greece. In the two and a half days, alongside the institutional visits, the Pope concentrated his attention on the presence of refugees on the island of Lesbos,where he shared the meditation on the dream of God so that “a world of peace, where all his children live as brothers and sisters” comes true. "For me, this meeting has been […]
