News Page 66

ATS pro Terra Sancta and the Custody of the Holy Land launch the campaign to collect Christmas funds to help the people most in need in Jesus’ birth town: the elderly and the children. To help the children in Jesus’ birth town and to protect the historical memory of Bethlehem by accompanying and taking care […]

The Hebrew version of the website of ATS pro Terra Sancta is now available online at www.proterrasancta.org. ATS pro Terra Sancta would like to inform of its activities and projects not only the Christians of Hebrew language, but also Hebrew people and institutions to spread information about the work of the Custody of the Holy […]

This is the conclusive week for the Synod for the Middle East, which is also attended by the Custos of the Holy Land and Chairman of ATS pro Terra Sancta, the official NGO of the Custody of the Holy Land, Pierbattista Pizzaballa. “The Synod cannot bring about immediate concrete operative results. The Synod can give […]

This is the conclusive week for the Synod for the Middle East, which is also attended by the Custos of the Holy Land and Chairman of ATS pro Terra Sancta, the official NGO of the Custody of the Holy Land, Pierbattista Pizzaballa. “The Synod cannot bring about immediate concrete operative results. The Synod can give […]

Over-population, a housing shortage and the exodus of Christian families: these are the problems at the root of the project “Jerusalem, stones of the memory”, the highly successful initiative launched by ATS pro Terra Sancta and the Custody of the Holy Land to renovate some 500 homes rented out on free loan to poor Christian […]

Bring the Holy Land with its needs and its charm closer to the Christian Community, but also to the secular world, communicate this reality and ask for support and help: these the words of the Custodian of the Holy Land Pierbattista Pizzaballa in an exclusive interview concerning fundraising. Corrado Paolucci, an ATS Pro Terra Sancta […]

Franciscan Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, is Custos, or Custodian, of the Holy Places in the Holy Land. His address, this week, to participants at the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops touched on the work the Franciscans do in the region and on his belief that being a minority does not […]

Below are the words of his Holyness Pope Benedict XVI for the opening of the Middle Eastern Region Synod in Rome. “Venerable Brothers,Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,Dear Brothers and Sisters! The Eucharistic celebration, the rendering of thanks to God par excellence, is marked for us today, gathered around the Tomb of St Peter, by an extraordinary […]

Some welcome us shyly, but most part of the children and teenagers of the Holy Land College of Bethlehem, the School run by Franciscan friars, are curious and make themselves available  for pictures, films and questions. Many the impressions one brings back home after a whole morning in schoolrooms and courtyards, with children from the […]

To help the children in Jesus’ birthtown and to protect the historical memory of Bethlehem by accompanying and taking care of the elderly living there: in a few days the Christmas campaign 2010 will be officially launched to support the Christians in need in the Holy Land. You too can think about a different type […]

The Custodian of the Holy Land and Chairman of ATS Pro Terra Sancta Pierbattista Pizzaballa will also attend the conference organized by Communion and Liberation on the occasion of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East. The conference will take place on October 19 at 10:00 in Rome in the […]

Two dates for an exemplary collaboration in the Holy Land, three high-level musical encounters in the Holy Sites of Jerusalem and Bethlehem: the  Institute Magnificat of the Custody of the Holy Land and the Orchestra of the Accademia delle Opere will perform together to celebrate Christmas with the Christian population of the Holy Land. Non […]

A spot still untouched by mass tourism notwithstanding the nearby Roman archaeological site of immense value, the tomb presumably belonging to John the Baptist and the breath-taking landscapes: Sebastia, the town founded by Herod the Great on the site of old Samaria in honour of Emperor Augustus, rediscovers today its own cultural heritage thanks to […]

The Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East will take place in Rome from 10 to 24 of October. Decided upon by Pope Benedict XVI following his journey to the Holy Land in May 2009, this extraordinary Synod Assembly has the task of confronting crucial questions and carries high hopes in […]

The history of the Catholic Churches in the Holy Land, as well as the difficulties and the hopes of the “small flock” living in the Land of Christ, expecting new vitality from the  Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East… Reportages, images, interviews by the Franciscan Media Center. Watch all the […]