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The Christmas fundraising campaign “At Christmas Time a Return to the Beginning” has not yet officially started.  Once again this year ATS pro Terra Sancta will be supporting the Christian community of Bethlehem: children, young families and the elderly. We are anticipating the launch of the campaign with a video produced by the Franciscan Media […]

At the beginning of the Year of Faith, the Franciscan Media Center interviewed Christians of the Holy Land. They spoke of their hopes and their difficulties. As a young shopkeeper said: “We need the whole world to pray for us and stand by us. We need people to come to Bethlehem, visit the Church of […]

Around forty girls in school uniform approach the church curiously, peering in through the door and watching the archaeological excavations going on outside, enchanted by the huge ancient olive trees in the garden. They’re excited about this unusual trip, which will allow them to visit the Church of Gethsemane for the first time: even though […]

Thanks to our collaboration with the Fondazione Onlus San Zeno in Verona, ATS Pro Terra Sancta can promote and take part in educational activities at the Terra Santa College, a Franciscan school in Bethlehem. ATS pro Terra Sancta is in fact supporting 50 of the school’s students, between the ages of 10 and 17, who […]

Today, the 4th of October, the High Mass in the Latin parish of San Salvatore in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, whose charisma has resided in the Holy Land for eight centuries. In the words of Pope Benedict XVI, “Saint Francis was an alter Christus, a living icon of […]

Partecipation in the testimony meeting held last Saturday 22 September at the Sala della Gran Guardia in the town of Rovigo was wide and interested. The meeting coordinated by Barbara Osti, who has already volunteered for ATS in Jerusalem, included special guests father Feras Hejazin, the parish priest of Jerusalem, and two young girls from […]

The digital edition of the magazine The Holy Land, and its sister Italian-language version Terrasanta, has now come to iPad. These are aimed at all those who wish to deepen their understanding of the cultural and spiritual aspects of the Holy Land, and offer articles on the Bible, current events, ecumenism, culture and inter-religious dialogue. […]

The works to clean and restore the splendid mosaics in the Church of Gethsemane are continuing, supported by the Italian Consulate General in Jerusalem. Following the works carried out on the first two domes in the left aisle, efforts are now focused on the mosaics in the third dome. Each day the five youths involved […]

The nine volunteers from Trento who’ve come to support the work of the Custody of the Holy Land’s technical office are – at between the ages of 21 and 32 – all very young. While the girls arrange the books on the shelves of the library of Saint Saviour’s new premises, the boys take care […]

Christmas is still far away, but ATS pro Terra Sancta has already begun preparing the fundraising campaign that this year once again will be dedicated to supporting social programs in Bethlehem. In this context we begin with a suggestion directed to companies and employers: to replace their traditional company gifts with a gesture of solidarity […]

A marked success for the small town of Crespellano (Italy), where this past Saturday the exhibition “Sabastiya, the Fruits of History and the Memory of John the Baptist” was inaugurated in the fifteenth century Church of San Rocco (on Via Marconi), with the church initially being illuminated entirely by candlelight. Officiating at the inauguration and […]

Federica worked for the project “Telling the Story of the Holy Land” while Claudio worked as part of “Books, Bridges of Peace“: here are the experiences of two young volunteers who came to Jerusalem over the summer to work in support of ATS pro Terra Sancta. “I have a degree in archaeology and I’m in […]

Cristina, who is just over twenty years old, spent a month with small children in Bethlehem, helping the sisters at the Antonian Charitable Society crèche and the Hogar Niño Dios, who run a home for disabled children. These are the same kids that ATS pro Terra Sancta helps as part of the project “Bethlehem and […]

On Thursday 4th October 2012 a duet piano concert organised by Don Massimiliano, a dear friend of pro Terra Sancta, will take place inside his parish church of Saint Giovanna Antida in Rome. The proceeds will go towards the ATS pro Terra Sancta project called “Jerusalem, Stones of Memory“, a project which aims to safeguard […]

These are the words that Pope Benedict XVI pronounced yesterday, 16th October, during the homily of the Holy Mass, in front of the main square crowded with people in the Lebanese capital. “It is an imperative task of the Church to serve and of Christians to be true servants in the image of Jesus. Service […]