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Here is the 2020 Budget and Social Report approved by the General Assembly of the pro Terra Sancta Association on April 29, 2021. The Social Report was prepared in line with the Third Sector reform, pursuant to art. 14 of the Legislative Decree n. 117/2017. Financial statements Notes to financial statements Mission report Auditors report […]

Bombardment on Gaza is still going on. Electricity comes and goes and it’s not easy for Ft. Romanelli to stay online and tell us what is going on over there. The urgency of communicating to everyone what the situation in one of the places most hitted by the escalation of violence currently tormenting the Holy […]

1682 injured Palestinians, 83 deaths -17 kids- and 487 injured in Gaza alone. 7 Israeli fatalities -2 kids- and 281 injured. The official data by the United Nation Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs is overwhelming but cannot describe how tense the situation is in Jerusalem and in all the Country. At this very […]

Surprising the new discoveries of the project “Books bridges of Peace”, headed by Professor Barbieri, director of the CRELEB centre – Holy Heart Catholic University of Milan- in collaboration with the Holy Land Custody and Pro Terra Sancta Association. In spite of the pandemic, the projects still brings up great results: see for example the […]

After the recent trip of my colleagues Giacomo and Libero, I chose to spend Easter in Lebanon and Syria. It was a very important experience as it allowed me to bring affection and support to the still suffering people. The situation in Syria, as cardinal Zenari confirmed, is terrible. When I met him he spoke […]

The Way of the Cross begins with kids screaming and playing in the courtyard of the al-Omariyya Islamic school. Hidden in the underground, below the feet of pupils and pilgrims, the remains of a huge roman fort. The once majestic rectangular building with four towers known as Antonia Fortress stood in the north-west corner of […]

Stories about the procession of Palm Sunday, one of the most important religious events for Catholics in the Holy Land.

Giacomo and Libero, operators of pro Terra Sancta, are back in Italy from their trip to Lebanon and Syria, where many needs still exist, especially among women and children, but people still hope of a better future.

On the eve of the 10 years from the beginning of the war in Syria, Tommaso Saltini, General Director of Association pro Terra Sancta, explains how the war has changed people’s life and what the Association has done in these years to support them.

A new project “Women at the Business Core” has been developed to be proposed to companies which are invited to support the implementation of a training and employability path for women in East Aleppo, helping them find again their independence and dignity lost during the war due to the actions of the Islamic militias.

The last campaign launched by Association pro Terra Sancta is a call to charity to allow people bind themselves forever to the Holy Land, helping people in need in those special places where the Bible and the Gospel take place, remembering the bond between Faith and Charity already found by Saint Paul.

Stories on Juda’s Desert, a place where many biblical and evangelic episodes take place, but that has been inhabited way longer before the Bible tells.

Latest news from Lattakia, where the economic sanctions, along with the burnings that have recently occurred, have exacerbated the condition of poverty and hopelessness of the citizens, deprived of essential goods, primary services and infrastructures.

Online classes of Italian and English language for young people continue in Jerusalem and Jericho during the Covid-19 pandemic: an opportunity to cultivate a passion and share time during social distancing.