On the evening of Sunday 12 January, during his mission in Jordan, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, visited the Shrine of Mount Nebo, in the care of the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land. He was accompanied by the Nuncio in Jordan, Mons. Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, and Mons. Marco Formica, an official of the Vatican Secretariat of State. The Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, Fra Rashid Mistrih, Fra Ammar Shaeen and […]
The day after the start of the ceasefire in Gaza, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, and the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, make an appeal to pilgrims from the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, the heart of Christianity and a Jubilee site, to come back to visit the Holy Places with confidence. “The pilgrimage is absolutely safe. It is time to look up and return to Jerusalem to also bring joy to […]
In Jerusalem, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was held this year from 25 January to 2 February. As according to tradition, the Week opens on the Saturday following the Armenian Christmas (19 January), and as per tradition, it opens with the participation in the Office of the Apodeipnon (complin) of the Greek Orthodox at the Calvary (Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre). In the name of Nicaea This year, the topic suggested by the Jerusalem Inter-Church Committee (JICC) was […]
From 16 to 23 September, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, took part in the celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the Franciscan Monastery in Washington, the seat of a community of the Custody as well as of the Commissariat of the Holy Land. The path of peace During a lecture with benefactors, the Custos illustrated the situation that the friars and Christians are living in in the Holy Land, their needs, their fears and their hopes. He […]