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The activity coordinator of the Antonian Society with the volunteers of Association Pro Terra Sancta cooking to help the sisters and the elderly people of the Antonian Society in Bethlehem. “We are Christians. Although we cannot figure out this moment, we must have faith”: Souzi Hazin thus ends our call. Souzi is the activity coordinator […]

I write from a very special, privileged place. A large terrace, I’d say… white. A rectangle bordered by massive stone walls, about one and a half meters high. Without even trying too hard, my eyes fall in rhythm, proceeding clockwise, on the “Franciscan church of the Saviour with its slender bell tower with a black […]

The Association Pro Terra Santa wins a project for Christian minorities in Bethlehem. Pro Terra Santa Association together with VIS and John Paul II Foundation wins a call for proposals from the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. A project aimed at Christian minorities to start again from tourism, culture and gastronomy when the nightmare of […]

Mirella Halabi, doctor in Aleppo, gives us some updates on the Covid-19 emergency in Syria. 54% of Syrian hospitals is either destroyed or unaccesible, therefore it wouldn’t be possible to face the epidemic.

Matteo tells us how people live in Bethlehem during the Corona Virus emergency, but above all how the works of charity continue to operate also thanks to the young volunteers coordinated by the Association Pro Terra Sancta. We had a nice chat with Matteo, professional educator and volunteer of the Civil Service for the Pro […]

Come with us to see the Holy Sepulchre as you have never seen it. The coronavirus emrgency also hit the Holy Land. After the first suspected cases in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, the authorities are moving towards increasingly severe measures. Tourists and pilgrims caonnot  enter the country. Borders where closed first to the Italians […]

Naila Nasser, social worker of the Association Pro Terra Sancta in Bethlehem, continues her work even during this critical moment, at least for the most urgent cases. Naila Nasser is the head of the emergency medical and listening center activated in Bethlehem by the Association Pro Terra Santa, a center of help and financial support […]

Stories from Bethlehem in the times of the Coronavirus. After the first cases of tourists tested positive, total closure of the city. Deserted streets and closed population. Association Pro Terra Sancta continues to remain on field to help the elderly and the sick, the group most at risk of being affected by the virus. A […]

On the Greek-Turkish border thousands of migrants are stuck in the cold, victims of violence and abuse. No one wants to take them in. On this occasion we publish the beautiful testimony of Fr. Luke Gregory, parish priest of the Greek islands of Rhodes and Kos, who has been providing assistance to Syrian refugees for […]

Rafedín means “Land between two rivers”, or the ancient Mesopotamia embraced by the Tigris and the Euphrates, Iraq today. Rafedín is the land from which the young Iraqi girls who now live as refugees in Amman, Jordan fled. “Rafedín – Made by Iraqi Girls” is a project of hope that has given these young Iraqi […]

Here is the Lenten letter of Fra Bahjat Elia Karakach, guardian of the convent of Bab Thouma in Damascus. Dear friends, I am writing to you from prison. Here comes the Lenten season which helps us to convert through penance. A time when we are called to be close to those who suffer, to the […]

A very welcome visit to the Bethany archeological site by the Palestinian Minister of Tourism and Antiquity Rula Maayah and the Minister of Jerusalem Fadi al-Hadami. The representatives of the Palestinian Authority, who came to Bethany for a meeting on the promotion of tourism in the Palestinian Territories, saw the restoration work carried out in […]

At the beginning of the Lenten Period we publish a letter from Fr. Ibrahim Alsabagh, parish priest of Aleppo. Dear all, the Pope’s appeal on Sunday 15 February to the Angelus gave us so much consolation. We have heard how close the Pope is, lives and suffers with us here in Aleppo, reminding the world […]

There is still war in northern Syria, where there is a constant fight in the province of Idlib and at the gates of Aleppo. More than 400,000 displaced people in the cold under the snow, without food or water. We publish the appeal of the friars in the region. The ground in Idlib trembles, people […]

Mozart resounds in Sebastia’s Al Badd crusade room thanks to the guys from the Telemaco quartet, four young chamber music talents who study or have just finished studying at the Milan Conservatory. Marco Mauro, Chiara, Lorenzo and Stefano performed two evenings of music in front of an audience of participating and interested Palestinians and internationals. […]