Work on the San Salvatore library didn’t end when its new headquarters were opened. Rather, thanks to ATS Pro Terra Sancta, and as part of the “Books, Bridges of Peace” project, work then began on making the abundance of volumes of the Custody of the Holy Land available. They don’t just consist of books, missals […]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees speaks of 93,000 deaths since March 2011, the beginning of the conflict in Syria. Among these are 6,500 minors and nearly 1,800 babies. Numbers that speak of an infinite tragedy, of broken lives and of a country in disintegration. In this sea of pain, where those who survive […]

Here you have the Bulletin with the May’s news from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Archaeological Museum. The bulletin is edited by the volunteers working at the Museum, in order to provide periodic updates on our progress and demonstrate the potential of the institution to those who are interested in finding out more. The various activities underway feed […]

Alone, abandoned by their families, sick and without access to care services: it’s difficult to be elderly in Bethlehem. Since the Palestinian health system depends on international aid, it is therefore is unable to provide accessibility to essential services. The people of the Palestinian Territories are suffering the socio-economic consequences, such as malnutrition, the impossibility […]

“The time has come to leave your name in history.” The meeting to present the Terra Sancta Museum concluded with this challenge. It comes, to say the least, at a moment of great economic difficulty. While all are preoccupied with preserving the little that they have, “we seek to encourage everyone to once again open […]

On Tuesday 21 May 2013, Fra Renato Beretta, General Visitor of the Custody of the Holy Land, will make a presentation in Milan on the project for the TERRA SANCTA MUSEUM, scheduled to open in 2015 in Jerusalem. Participants will includes the organizers, museum specialists, architects and all the collaborators who for more than two […]

They learned about the situation facing the Parish of the Good Shepherd in Jericho during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and decided, on the occasion of their wedding, to make an offering in support of the initiatives of the Franciscans in Jericho. Along with the traditional wedding comfits they gave a bookmark explaining their […]

Here we have messages from two of the four people who have recently returned from a trip to the Holy Land, where they had asked ATS Pro Terra Sancta for assistance in organising their journey. They visited the conservation and local community support projects with us which we carry out in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Sabastiya, […]

Here you have the Bulletin with the April’s news from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Archaeological Museum. The bulletin is edited by the volunteers working at the Museum, in order to provide periodic updates on our progress and demonstrate the potential of the institution to those who are interested in finding out more. The various activities underway feed in […]

The ATS pro Terra Sancta project, “Gethsemane: preserve the past and train the future”, was also created to show schoolchildren the work of the young men of the Mosaic Center in Jericho. The video, realized by the Franciscan Media Center, shows a project that focuses on everything from the education of children to beauty and dialogue. […]

The friendship between the girls at the Terra Santa Girls’ School of Bethlehem and the children in the schools of Savona (Italy) began shortly before Christmas, when ATS pro Terra Sancta received a request for “twinning” from a school in Savona. The Terra Santa Girls’ School of Bethlehem joyfully accepted the proposal, and the students […]

Praying is always possible because the time of the Christian is the time of the risen Christ who remains “with us always”. (Catechism of the Catholic Church). The application, the first of its kind, offers to all Catholics the possibility of praying by means of the official prayer of the Breviary (Liturgy of the Hours), presenting the […]

On Holy Saturday the program “Strada Regina “ of Televisione svizzera (RSI, the Italian-language public television in Switzerland) broadcast a special video on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, featuring two of the world’s leading experts, the Israeli archaeologist Dan Bahat and Father Massimo Pazzini, Dean of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum. The broadcast […]

Another beautiful initiative in support of the Holy Land has been organized by the friends of the Training Institute of the Holy Family in Comonte, in the province of Bergamo. On the occasion of the Feast of St. Paola Elisabetta Cerioli, the students at the school organized a week of events: a local market where […]

The news received from the Franciscan friars of Aleppo speaks of continued violence. However, this did not stop the celebrations of Holy Week and Easter. They were celebrated with a large influx of people and in the presence of the Bishop. Read the Franciscans’ complete account published on Terrasanta.net. What the Christian community of Syria […]

Issa and Nahla, an elderly couple who share their home with the youngest of their five children, Feras, live in an apartment just a few steps from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Feras lost a leg in an accident and is no longer able to work. As a result the famous faces […]

One year ago we resumed work on studying and cataloguing the finds at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Archaeological Museum. This sparked the idea of starting up a short news bulletin, edited by the volunteers working at the museum, in order to provide periodic updates on our progress and demonstrate the potential of the institution to those […]

“An ambitious project, that of ‘telling the story of Christianity from its origins’. Works have already begun some time ago and it will be ready in 2015. With the opening to the public of a modern museum complex – the only one so far in all the Land of God – the Franciscans of the […]

After 18 months of work, the Basilica of Gethsemane It returns to its former glory: the restoration of the precious mosaics has been completed, and the 5000 pilgrims who visit the Church of the Agony in Jerusalem every day will once again be able to linger among the ancient naves with their noses up, immersed […]

Thanks to the collaboration between ATS pro Terra Sancta and AVSI, and sponsored by Italian Development Cooperation, two scientific exhibitions – previously presented at the Rimini Meeting – offering a new and exciting manner of experiencing mathematics and astronomy were inaugurated on 11 March at the University of Bethlehem. The exhibitions, which will remain open […]