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Music, dancing, sweets, bingo…and countless smiles: nothing was lacking at the Christmas party held in the home for the elderly managed by the Società Antoniana in Bethlehem. Older people frequently alone, abandoned and without resources who, thanks to the Gianelline sisters and the support of ATS pro Terra Sancta and numerous friends and donors, are […]

“Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy. For unto you is born this day a Savior, who is Christ the Lord” Luke 2:10-11. On the occasion of Holy Christmas, the Custody of the Holy Land wishes happy holidays, offering to pilgrims and lovers of the Holy Land the possibility to visit, on our new website, the […]

We wish to bring to your attention our appeal for providing emergency assistance to Gaza. The situation in the Gaza Strip becomes every day more complex. It is our desire to support the worthy charitable activities of Christians who are providing assistance to the local population, and in particular helping to protect disabled children, without regard […]

This is the message of Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Custos of the Holy Land and President of ATS pro Terra Sancta, for Christmas 2012: “Console my people, console them,” says your God. “Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and cry to her that her period of service is ended, that her guilt has been atoned for, that, from […]

Until the year 2000 the town of Bethlehem, located in the territory of the Palestinian Authority, was able to enjoy a certain level of well-being due to activities linked to tourism and opportunities for employment in nearby Jerusalem and, more generally, in Israeli territory. However, with the outbreak of the Second Intifada and the continual […]

The Massolini Calendar is produced by the ‘Giovan Battista Massolini’ Cultural Association, in collaboration with ATS pro Terra Sancta and the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum. The 2013 edition is dedicated to Judea. Open publication – Free publishing – More 2013

There are so many pilgrims who, having come to the Holy Land to see firsthand the Places of the Incarnation, return home full of joy and strengthened in their faith. In the section dedicated to pilgrims and pilgrimages, we have published the testimonies and messages that have arrived over the past months. Words full of […]

Since 2005 families of the Catholic Action of Vicenza and families most in need in Bethlehem have been joined through a great gesture of generosity and kindness. The project was set up in the years following the second intifada, with the main aim of providing support to families in accessing medical care through private insurance […]

Cervia, Rimini and Florence: a grand success for the first three stops of the presentation of “Holding onto One’s Roots: Stories and Faces of the Christians in the Holy Land“, the book that seeks to support the living stones and ATS pro Terra Sancta. “I arrived in Italy with the hope that my testimony might […]

In a few days a series of encounters to present the book “Holding onto One’s Roots: Stories and Faces of the Christians in the Holy Land” will begin. From 29 November to 7 December the two young authors – and friends of the Holy Land – Andrea Avveduto and Giovanni Zennaro are participating in a […]

Beautiful watercolours by Sandra Borgogno, an ATS pro Terra Sancta volunteer, and words by Osama Hamdan, Carla Benelli and Wala Ghazi, who also collaborate with ATS pro Terra Sancta, in a book written for the children of Sabastiya, telling the story of their village in an illustrated version. Fun, playful characters, who come out of […]

At 4pm on November 27th, the presentation of the 2013 Massolini Calendar, dedicated to Judea, took place at the San Giovanni Cloisters Theatre (San Giovanni 8 district), Brescia (Italy). In attendance: Father Massimo Pazzini ofm, Dean of Jerusalem’s Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, and Don Flavio Dalla Vecchia, professor of sacred scripture and Hebrew language and literature […]

We have received various requests to express our views on what is happening in Gaza. Honestly, we have not said anything until now, because one does not know what to state any more. The ecclesiastical Institutions already update and express their views regarding the matter and therefore it does not seem necessary to repeat what others […]

ATS pro Terra Sancta is following with great concern the evolution of the situation in the Gaza Strip, fearing the repeat of a tragedy like the one four years ago – Operation “Cast Lead”, which caused around 1,300 deaths –with the local population once again in the direct line of fire. Within the Christian community […]

With its fund-raising campaign “At Christmas Time a Return to the Beginning“, ATS pro Terra Sancta invites everyone to support the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land and their works to aid the most fragile amongst the living stones of Bethlehem: children, young families and the elderly. The projects of ATS pro Terra […]