The Catholic community of Jaffa (Tel Aviv) celebrated the solemnity of the apostle Peter in the sanctuary dedicated to him. Peter’s apostolate It is here that a number of episodes from Peter’s apostolate took place, according to biblical- Christian tradition: the resurrection of Tabitha, the hospitality at Simon the Tanner’s house, and the vision of the tablecloth lowered from heaven. The church built here has the purpose of commemorating these events. The first foundation dates back to the time of […]
On Saturday 10th June, for the “#Notalone, Meeting on Human Fraternity,” the Magnificat, the school of music of the Custody of the Holy Land, has been asked to take part in the day dedicated to fraternity with music and talent but above all the story of Muhammad Al-Sheikh. #Notalone, organized by the Vatican’s Fratelli Tutti Foundation and broadcast all over the world on Rai 1 and on the Vatican media, is an event inspired by Pope Francis’s “Fratelli tutti” Encyclical, signed […]
In two weeks' time, on 29 March, Good Friday will be celebrated, the day dedicated to the collection for the Holy Land. In this interview, Fr. Tony Choucry, bursar of the Custody, underlines the necessity of the Holy Land Collection and renews the appeal to the faithful throughout the world to support the sanctuaries of the Holy Places and to keep Christians in the Holy Land. "The Good Friday Collection - says Fr. Tony Choucry - was instituted by the Magisterium […]
The 2020 Massolini Calendar, dedicated to Cyprus, was presented in the Aula Magna of the Diocesan Cultural Pole of Brescia, on 20th December. Father Jerzy Kraj, Delegate of the Custody of the Holy Land for Cyprus was present. The table of speakers was made up of Don Flavio Dalla Vecchia, lecturer in Hebrew Language and Literature at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; Father Aldino Cazzago, lecturer in the History of Orthodox Theology at the Catholic University of the […]
