On 31 May, the Custody of the Holy Land celebrated the feast-day of the Visitation in Ain Karem: in this shrine, about 8 kilometres from the Old City of Jerusalem, the visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth is remembered. The Gospel according to Luke (1:39-56) gives us a delicate and intimate picture of the meeting between the women: Elizabeth who in her old age was despairing about the possibility of having children, greeted Mary, carrying Jesus in […]
After many months of inspections, investigations and tests, 75 works of art belonging to the Terra Sancta Museum have set off on their journey to Europa. Their destination: Lisbon, and one of the most famous museums in Portugal, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum which from November 2023 until 15th February 2024 will host this exhibition of masterpieces of the Custody of the Holy Land. The works of art, selected after careful and meticulous work by the team of Professor António Filipe Pimentel […]
“Educating is the road to the future and peace”: fra Ibrahim Faltas, director of the Terra Sancta Schools, is increasingly convinced of this. At the school of coexistence We are talking about twenty schools and some 12,000 pupils (in addition to about a thousand teachers and other staff), in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan and Cyprus. “A particularity of the schools of the Custody of the Holy Land is that they foster a mixed environment: Christians and Muslims study in […]
The first Commissariat of the Holy Land in India was inaugurated on Saturday 25th January at St. Anthon’s Friary in Bangalore, in the presence of Mons. Peter Machado, Archbishop of Bangalore, the Provincial Minister of the “St Thomas Apostle” Franciscan Province, Fr. Praveen D' Souza and Fr. Francis Xavier, the first commissioner of the Holy Land. A delegation from the Custody was also present for this important occasion, made up of the head of the office of coordination of the […]
