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The first year of the three-year project “Supporting emergency education in the Palestinian Autonomous Territories” has now been completed. The project is financed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is being carried out in collaboration with the AVSI Foundation. The courses supported by ATS pro Terra Sancta and AVSI in this initial year […]

The new site jerusalemstonesofmemory.org, dedicated to the project “Jerusalem, Stones of memory” supported by ATS pro Terra Sancta, is now available online. The site grew out of the idea to give greater visibility to this important project of the Custody of the Holy Land that is aimed at safeguarding the presence of the Christian community […]

A beautiful inaugural conference for the photographic and video exhibition “Sebastiya, the fruits of history and the memory of John the Baptist”. Present at the event were Andrea Barducci, President of the Province of Florence, Sabri Ateyeh, Ambassador of the Palestinian National Authority in Italy, Monsignor Luciano Giovannetti, President of the John Paul II Foundation, […]

The precarious economic and political situation in the Palestinian Autonomous Territories means that residents face numerous difficulties, ranging from unemployment to the lack of a welfare system that takes care of people in need. ATS pro Terra Sancta, through its support of the Franciscan Social Service Office (FSSO) of the Custody of the Holy Land […]

From an experience which occurred almost by accident, to a thesis having as its principal subject the living stones of Jerusalem. This  is the story of Giovanni Zennaro, a volunteer with the Custody of the Holy Land, and a new graduate in photography from the Libera Accademia di Belle Arti in Brescia whose  thesis was […]

A trip, brief but intense, with the aim not only of visiting a number of the most beautiful historical and archaeological sites in the world, but also to see first hand a method for preserving and enhancing historical and artistic heritage. This describes the study trip to Italy undertaken this past September by a small […]

“We are seeking to create bridges of peace through culture as a reminder that cultural memory and heritage belong to everyone regardless of their religion”.  With these words, on the occasion of the Fourth Day of the Associations of the Holy Land on 22 October, the architect and ATS pro Terra Sancta collaborator Osama Hamdan […]

Starting from the concept of religious freedom, to achieve and maintain peace in the Holy Land by means of interreligious dialogue: this theme, at the center of the fourth annual day for the associations of the Holy Land in Rome held on 22 October, was discussed by numerous representatives from the ecclesiastical world and from […]

This past week the elderly women living in the rest home managed by the Società Antoniana of Bethlehem received a big present. Through its collaboration with the Women’s Antonian Branch, ATS pro Terra Sancta was able to make possible an excursion to a community center at Beit Sahour, a village near Bethlehem. The 15 elderly women […]

The memory of Father Michele Piccirillo, a passionate archaeologist who made archaeology into an instrument for encounters between people of different religions and cultures, remains alive, and not only in the Holy Land. On Monday 7 November at 19.00, on the third anniversary of his death, RAE Cinema will present a preview of the documentary […]

An exhibition to help make better known in Italy the Palestinian site of Sebastia and to recount the goals of the archaeological and development project carried out there by ATS pro Terra Sancta. The exhibition “Sebastia, the fruits of history and the memory of John the Baptist”, produced by ATS pro Terra Sancta, will be […]

 Support the Custody of the Holy Land in Bethlehem *** Your contribution can help the franciscan friars of the Holy Land to meet the needs of children, young families, the elderly. *** This Christmas please support their efforts to build peace in this land that is the crossroads of love for humanity. Children and families […]

We remind that the fourth annual meeting between the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and the associations of volunteers who are supporting projects in the Holy Land will be held on Saturday 22 October at the Antonianum Auditorium in Rome. The day, the fourth of its kind, will this year focus on […]

On 22 October, at the chapel of the Ephpheta School in Bethlehem, the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Pontifical Institute “Ephpheta Paul VI” will be celebrated. A mass presided by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Msgr. Fouad Twal, will be followed by the inauguration of a new area in glass and mosaic at the […]

A donation for the Holy Land on the occasion of a marriage. This represents an alternative and supportive manner of foregoing gifts that not infrequently turn out to be exaggerated or superfluous, and instead directing the offering towards people who are truly in need. An idea that can transform a “classic” gift into a new […]