"Learn to do good, make justice your aim" (Isaiah 1:17) is the topic chosen for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023, which in Jerusalem implicated the many Christian confessions present in the Holy Land. Nine prayer meetings which were held from 21st to 29th January, every day in a different place, attended by faithful and religious confirmed the ecumenical spirit of the communities taking part (Anglicans, Armenians, Lutherans, Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Syrian and Ethiopian communities and Catholics […]
The seventh SOL festival (Semaine de l’Orgue au Liban – Lebanese Pipe Organ Week), coproduced by Notre Dame University School of Music and the Terra Sancta organ Festival, organized by the Custody of the Holy Land, was held in Lebanon from 26 April to 1 May. The SOL Festival is the only one in Lebanon dedicated to organ music and the only festival tat over the years has expanded nationwide: this year there were concerts in Beirut, Zouk Mosbeh, Ajaltoun […]
The liturgical celebration in honour of Belgium was celebrated on 19 November in St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem. This country – together with France, Italy and Spain – is considered one of the four “Catholic nations” that protect the Christian communities, for the role it has played in history since the beginning in relation to the Custody of the Holy Land, supporting and protecting the Franciscans in their mission of looking after, taking care of and maintaining the Holy Places. […]
The celebrations dedicated to the eight hundredth anniversary of the meeting between St Francis of Assisi and the Sultan Al-Malik Al-Kamel, organized in Damietta and Cairo by the Franciscans of the Egyptian Province “The Holy Family” came to an end on Sunday 3rd March. The Egyptian setting directly evokes the meeting that took place 800 years ago between the Saint and the Sultan and which, even today, speaks to all those who have made dialogue and coexistence their everyday life. […]
