On Saturday 23 September, the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land met in Emmaus El-Qubeibeh to celebrate St Simeon and St Cleopas. They were the two disciples who met Jesus Risen as they returned from Jerusalem to their homes, disappointed by his death. They walked with him for a little while and, at the entrance to the village of Emmaus, they invited him to stay with them. Then they recognized him when he broke bread. This is where […]
The ribbon was cut for the new classrooms in the Terra Sancta School in Beit Hanina, one of the Arab quarters in the outskirts of Jerusalem on the road that from the city goes towards Ramallah. A renovated school Just a few weeks after the start of the new school year, the Custos of the Holy Land, fra Francesco Patton, visited the school, which was completely renovated over the summer. He was welcomed by the head of the Terra Sancta […]
The Pope has given the green light for the canonization of the “Martyrs of Damascus ”, eight Friars Minor and three Maronite laymen, killed “out of hatred of the faith” in Damascus, in the night between 9 and 10 July 1860. They were the Blessed Manuel Ruiz and his 7 companions of the Order of Friars Minor, and the brothers Francis, Abdel Mooti and Raphael Massabki, lay faithful. The announcement The announcement was made by the Vatican on 23 May. It […]
"A gesture of solidarity to support the Holy Places and the needs of the confreres in the land of Jesus": Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, asked for it, just a few days from the Pro Terra Sancta Collection, the collection of offerings that takes place in all the churches of the world for the Christians of the Middle East. It is usually held on Good Friday but this year, due to the Covid emergency, […]