The events of the Jubilee Year are continuing in Bethlehem as well and the pupils of the Terra Santa College set off, with songs and prayers, for the Shepherds’ Field. Pupils from the sixth to the eleventh grade (aged 11 to 16), accompanied by their teachers and the head teacher of the school, Fra George Haddad, walked together through the streets of Bethlehem in the direction of the Shepherds’ Field, where they then celebrated a Mass in the Croatian chapel, […]
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 […]
Dear friends, May the Lord give you His peace! 1. The experience of this last year has been truly difficult for all of us who live in the Holy Land. The war on several fronts has not only brought death and destruction but has sown further hatred between neighbouring and people who have had brotherly relationships. Many families have been left without work and have struggled to send their children to school as well as to pay for medical care […]
The Custos of the Holy Land, fra Francesco Patton, greeted the participants of the march organized by the Association of Franciscan Missions of Trento in Rovereto (Italy) on 24 May. The meeting was in the place where During the First World War there was the front and where today there is the large Bell of the War Dead, made 100 years ago. “I will take this rope, the symbol of your march, to Jerusalem, to Gethsemane” he said, emphasizing the […]
