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...
Church / Crisis / The Holy Land
by CNS · Published October 23, 2020 · Last modified October 21, 2020
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...
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...
Church / Pilgrimage / The Holy Land
by admin · Published April 9, 2019 · Last modified April 6, 2019
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...
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...
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,...
For Holy Land Christians, St Paul VI left behind a legacy of Catholic institutions to serve and strengthen the community.
Justice & Peace / The Holy Land
by Kilian SC · Published October 10, 2018 · Last modified November 1, 2018
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....
Church / Feast Days / Simmermacher / The Holy Land
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published August 11, 2018 · Last modified August 8, 2018
Tradition holds that the Transfiguration of Jesus took place on Mount Tabor, the 586 metre-high bluff which overlooks the Jezreel (or Esdraelon) plains.
Bible / Jesus / Simmermacher / The Holy Land
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published July 10, 2018 · Last modified July 9, 2018
In biblical times, as today, water was vital: to be hydrated, to stay clean, to produce crops, to raise livestock. Water was life. So it is no accident that so many crucial events in the Gospel take place around water: the Sea of Galilee, the River Jordan, and the various wells and healing pools.
A group from Bryanston parish in Johannesburg on the shore of the Sea of Galilee during their Holy Land pilgrimage, led by Frs Keith Gordon-Davis and Theo...
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