Jerusalem: My Home and Yours
What motivates a Christian pilgrim guide in the Holy Land? RIMON MAKHLOUF, a Latin-rite Catholic from Jerusalem, tells his story. My home is Jerusalem. This is what...
Category: Pilgrimages
In the Footsteps of a Great Saint
The Southern Cross’ recent pilgrimage to Fatima also went to the places of the great St Teresa of Avila in Spain. In the fourth and final part...
When You Pray, Have Your GPS Handy
The Southern Cross’ recent pilgrimage to Portugal and Spain was a very prayerful experience. GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER looks at the power of prayer on pilgrimage. On our pilgrimage,...
What We Saw in Fatima
The centrepoint of The Southern Cross’ pilgrimage to Portugal and Spain in May was the visit to Fatima to mark the centenary of the apparitions. GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER shares...
Crossroad on Fatima Pilgrimage
The Southern Cross’ pilgrimage to Portugal and Spain in May was accompanied by several saints, as GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER explains.
The Miracle that Saved Cairo’s Christians
Christianity is active and beautiful in Cairo. In the tenth and final part of his series on the recent Pilgrimage of the Peacemakers, GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER visits Cairo’s...
Via Dolorosa Pilgrims Walk by Faith
For centuries Christian pilgrims have walked the Via Dolorosa the Way of the Cross in Jerusalem. The route might not be historically accurate, but to pilgrims that...
Southern Cross Pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Italy – photos
The Southern Cross pilgrimage with Archbishop Brislin and editor Gunther Simmermacher to the Holy Land and Italy is underway and we are keeping up with what they...
Part 14: The pilgrim as a tourist
The arbitrariness of air travel itineraries sometimes produce the happy circumstance of allowing travellers to visit places they otherwise would not see. Our group of 45 Southern...
