FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN THE HOLY LAND
On Sunday 28th March Euronews reported that “demonstrators protesting at Israel’s Easter blockade on the West Bank territories have clashed with guards at a checkpoint on the route from Bethlehem to Jerusalem. (more…)
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN THE HOLY LAND
The Holy Week celebrations in Jerusalem will begin on 28th March, with the celebration of Palm Sunday. The blessing of palms and olive branches takes place early in the morning in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, during Mass celebrated by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fuoad Twal. (more…)
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN THE HOLY LAND
Last Sunday’s incidents on the Temple esplanade and the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem are an indication that violence is once more escalating in the Holy Land. (more…)
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN THE HOLY LAND
On Friday 19th March the Franciscan parish of Nazareth celebrated the feast of Saint Joseph in the church of the Nutrition, or of the Holy Family, close to the Basilica of the Annunciation. (more…)
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN THE HOLY LAND
On Monday 15th March the Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem reopens for public worship. Its dedication follows the welcoming of the Torah scroll into the Synagogue on Sunday 14th March. (more…)
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN THE HOLY LAND
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for Oriental Churches, has spoken about the Good Friday collection in aid of Christians in the Holy Land in his annual message to all bishops, priests and Christian faithful. It is a tradition that on Good Friday a collection is held in all churches to help the Catholic Church’s mission in the Holy Land. (more…)
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN THE HOLY LAND
On Wednesday 3 March the Franciscan friars of the Holy Land Custody began their weekly Lenten peregrinationes to various sanctuaries linked with the Passion of Christ by celebrating Mass at the small chapel of “Dominus Flevit”, halfway down the Mount of Olives directly opposite the Old City of Jerusalem. (more…)
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On Sunday 28 February Pope Benedict XVI prayed for the families of eight Christians of the Chaldean Catholic rite who have been killed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, as part of a long string of murders and persecutions of Christians by Islamic extremists. Two years ago, the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, was kidnapped and murdered. Most of Iraqi’s 700,000 Christians belong to the Chaldean Catholic Church. (more…)
