Franciscans Mark 600 years as Guardians of Christendom’s Most Sacred Sites
By Julie Asher – Before he became guardian and commissary of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington in 2013, Franciscan Father Larry Dunham made...
Category: The Holy Land
Bishops, visiting Holy Land virtually, see ‘less cause for optimism’
By Judith Sudilovsky – Bishops who spent six days visiting virtually with Christians in the Holy Land said “it has become painfully clear that there is today less...
Church of the Gethsemane in Jerusalem Firebombed
By Judith Sudilovsky – Israeli police arrested a Jewish man after he allegedly threw a firebomb inside the Basilica of All Nations at Gethsemane Church on the...
Priest: This Year, We Can Recognise Gethsemane In The Whole World
By Judith Sudilovsky – The uncharacteristic silence at the hermitage of the Garden of Gethsemane was, in a way, fitting to the current world situation, said Franciscan...
Pandemic Leaves Streets Empty in the Holy Land
By Judith Sudilovsky – During all the years he has worked as an assistant to the Franciscan Fathers at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jeries Majlaton has...
Driving Out Christians
Pilgrims to the Holy Land will see in abundance the holy shrines of Our Lord and the rocks of the prophets. These are often referred to as...
Southern Cross Pilgrims Prepare for the Holy Land
Gauteng-based pilgrims taking part in the Southern Cross pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Rome in May came together for a preparation meeting at the Jesuit Institute...
Brislin on the Holy Land: The Church Cannot Stay Silent
Addressing Palestinian Christians in the West Bank town of Zababdeh, Archbishop Stephen Brislin of Cape Town said the Church cannot be silent or neutral in the face...
Go to the Holy Land, if You Can
Recently I had the most wonderful opportunity to visit the Holy Land. Friends of mine invited me and I did not have to think twice about it,...
St Paul VI’s Legacy of Community in the Holy Land
For Holy Land Christians, St Paul VI left behind a legacy of Catholic institutions to serve and strengthen the community.
‘Holy Land Christians Need our Solidarity’
If we are looking for an example of Christian unity in action, we should look to the Palestinian Christians, and other Christian communities in the Middle East....
Where is the Real Place of the Tranfiguration?
Tradition holds that the Transfiguration of Jesus took place on Mount Tabor, the 586 metre-high bluff which overlooks the Jezreel (or Esdraelon) plains.
