A very welcome visit to the Bethany archeological site by the Palestinian Minister of Tourism and Antiquity Rula Maayah and the Minister of Jerusalem Fadi al-Hadami. The representatives of the Palestinian Authority, who came to Bethany for a meeting on the promotion of tourism in the Palestinian Territories, saw the restoration work carried out in […]

At the beginning of the Lenten Period we publish a letter from Fr. Ibrahim Alsabagh, parish priest of Aleppo. Dear all, the Pope’s appeal on Sunday 15 February to the Angelus gave us so much consolation. We have heard how close the Pope is, lives and suffers with us here in Aleppo, reminding the world […]

There is still war in northern Syria, where there is a constant fight in the province of Idlib and at the gates of Aleppo. More than 400,000 displaced people in the cold under the snow, without food or water. We publish the appeal of the friars in the region. The ground in Idlib trembles, people […]

Mozart resounds in Sebastia’s Al Badd crusade room thanks to the guys from the Telemaco quartet, four young chamber music talents who study or have just finished studying at the Milan Conservatory. Marco Mauro, Chiara, Lorenzo and Stefano performed two evenings of music in front of an audience of participating and interested Palestinians and internationals. […]

The guesthouse managed by the Association Pro Terra Sancta, Dar Mamilla, located on the premises of the convent of St. Vincent de Paul in Jerusalem, was officially inaugurated on Tuesday 4 February. Together with the Sisters of Charity of the Order of St. Vincent de Paul, the volunteers and members of the Association pro Terra […]

“A compilation of the most significant objects of the Terra Sancta Museum“: with these words Sara Cibin curator of the catalog, describes the volume: Selected Works from the collection of the Terra Sancta Museum. The catalog, published by Edizioni Terra Santa, allows to have a general look at the collections of objects preserved in the […]

In the Manger Square, many workers from the municipality of Bethlehem are taking care of dismantling the last Christmas lights. Even the Orthodox Christmas and the Armenian Christmas, which fall respectively 13 and 21 days after the Catholic one, have now passed and it is time to leave the holidays behind. But even when the […]

1,250,000 mosaic tiles, 100 pieces to cover an area of ​​5 square meters, a month and a half to complete. At the Mosaic Center in Jericho a team of six people work tirelessly to create the mosaic covering of a niche in the crypt of the Dormitio, the church on Mount Zion in Jerusalem that […]

The care that ATS pro Terra Sancta gives to people with disabilities is expressed through different projects that have the common purpose of facilitating the beneficiaries or both the local disabled population and tourists and pilgrims who live in a condition of disability and often have difficulties to reach the Holy Places. The numbers in […]

Now that we have reached the end of our first decade of activities, we can say it: in the last eleven years we have grown a lot, even beyond our expectations. Our activities and projects reach thousands of people in need of everything, and thanks to your help we have become a well-rooted presence in […]

Very long brown hair and engaging smile. Shira Shafie, 24, is a young Palestinian architect from Ramallah. A recent graduate of Birzeit University, she recently began her first work experience for the Mosaic Center. Thanks to his technical and computer skills, he created a series of four 3D videos to graphically depict the historical evolution […]

Even the Christians in Jerusalem eagerly await the arrival of Christmas. Anyone who wants to find the Christmas atmosphere in the Holy City must go to the Christian or Armenian quarter of the old city. Only here, in fact, can one admire decorations, lights and Christmas decorations on the doors of houses and churches. In […]

The ten Franciscan tertiary sisters, daughters of St. Elizabeth who live in Jerusalem, come from Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Italy. The religious family, born in the upper Casentino area on May 26, 1888, has been on mission in the Holy Land since June 23, 2016. The founders, Mother Francesca Casci and Don Giuseppe Marchi, followed […]

“Why is the sea salty? But all of it? ”, Hussam asks innocently, looking at the sea. He is one of the seven children of the orphanage Jeel al-Amal (Generation of Hope) School and Home for Bethany boys who were hosted by some families of the parish of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Palermo from […]

In recent months winds of war have resumed blowing violently in northern Syria: in the northwest the army of Damascus fights the last jihadist resistance, while since the beginning of October the Turks have invaded the Kurdish area to the northeast. And despite the bombastic news with a flavor of propaganda announcing important achievements on […]

The precious reproduction of a text by a mathematical monk of the late fifteenth century (de Divina proportione) is among the many volumes present in the exhibition dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci in the premises of the Franciscan Custodial Curia. It is a volume by Fra Luca Pacioli (1455-1517), a collaborator of Leonardo Da Vinci […]

“Every musician’s dream is to play all over the world, but how could a Christian not dream of playing in the Holy Land?” These are the words of Luigi Giovanni Maria Panceri, aka Gatto Panceri, at the end of his concert in Jerusalem. The Italian singer-songwriter, born in 1962, performed for crowded fan audience at […]

The hands of Erzsébet Windhager-Gered, a Romanian musician, move swiftly on the keys of the imposing organ of the Church of St. Savior in Jerusalem and the large audience is listening to the powerful melodies resound in the nave. With the notes of Bach, the first of the three Jerusalem events of the sixth edition […]

A moment of exchange to get to know each other better and to understand more deeply Jerusalem and its complex reality in which both associations, ATS pro Terra Sancta and the Jerusalem African Community Center (JACC), operate. This is the meaning of the meeting between Josie Mendelson, director of JACC, accompanied to her collaborators, and […]

It is the second year that the volunteers of the Association of Educators Without Borders (ESF) collaborate with the Association pro Terra Sancta, bringing educational and training activities to some of the social realities of Bethlehem. Founded in 2005 in Milan with the aim of training educators to intervene in contexts of poverty and marginality, […]