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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 […]

For the fourth year in succession, ATS pro Terra is launching a Christmas fundraising campaign in support of Bethlehem and the needs of the poorest there! The campaign is entitled “At Christmas Time a Return to the Beginning”: an initiative in which everyone is invited to support the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy […]

ATS pro Terra Sancta opened the first affordable guest house in Jericho, thanks to financing obtained from the Belgian Cooperation. The benefits are twofold: visitors and pilgrims will be able to stay in the oldest city in the world and new jobs will created for several local unemployed Palestinians. Jericho is the oldest (and lowest, […]

On 12 October at the Antonian Charitable Society of Bethlehem, a new day centre for the elderly of the city was opened: the Saint Anthony Active Elderly Centre. ATS pro Terra Sancta has once again lent its support to pensioners most in need in Bethlehem, thanks to the help of the Committee of the Italian […]

We reproduce below the preoccupying words of Father Ibrahim Faltas, a Franciscan of the Custody of the Holy Land, on his return from a visit to his native land: Egypt. “That atmosphere, up to now so full of charm and antiquity, no longer exists. My recent visit to Egypt proved a great shock for me, […]

On Wednesday the 3rd October we held a seminar entitled “Education as a relationship between all school actors: management, teachers, students and families“, addressed to the directors of the school of the Holy Land and the teachers involved in the project “Supporting emergency education in the Palestinian Autonomous Territories”, supported by the Ministry of Foreign […]