Rome 19th – 21st September 2011; Jerusalem 7th – 21st November 2011. The Training Course for Pilgrimages Animators is for religious and priests who have taken the Baccalaureate in Theology and have already visited the main Sites of the Holy Land as pilgrims. The course aims to prepare the candidate for the spiritual accompaniment of pilgrims through […]

For centuries the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land have been responsible for protecting the Christian heritage in the Holy Land. “Telling the Story of the Holy Land” is a project that arose from an initiative of the Custody of the Holy Land and ATS pro Terra Sancta, with the aim of promoting […]

Come and see for yourself. This is the only way to learn about the reality of Bethlehem. Through its project “Bethlehem is also for the elderly”, ATS pro Terra Sancta is trying to make sure that the elderly are not forgotten, in particular those who reside in the Antonian Charitable Society, a rest home that […]

More than ten thousand people attended the session with Father Custos on Wednesday 24 August, on the occasion of the presentation of the exhibition on Capernaum – “Through the eyes of the Apostles – A presence that overwhelms life” at the Rimini Meeting. The exhibition displays the historical fact of Jesus through the archaeological and […]

The intervention of the Custos at the Rimini Meeting on the occasion of the presentation of the exhibition on Jesus’ life at Capernaum – “Through the eyes of the Apostles – A presence that overwhelms life”. The exhibition “Through the eyes of the Apostles – A presence that overwhelms life” was officially presented by the […]

The exhibition on Jesus’ life at Capernaum was inaugurated yesterday 21 August on the occasion of the 32nd edition of the noted Rimini Meeting with the title “And existence becomes an immense certainty”. Many visitors came on the opening day to see the exhibition. Among them was the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano. The exhibition “Through […]

We have asked Fabrizio and Francesca, two volunteers for ATS pro Terra Sancta, to tell us of their experiences in Bethlehem. They have dedicated their day to helping the children of Bethlehem, in the morning at the nursery school managed by the Societá Antoniana of Bethlehem and in the afternoon at the Hogar Niño Dios, […]

More than 500 young people from the Holy Land have left to attend the World Youth Day being held in Madrid. They come from all of the dioceses of Jordan, Israel and Palestine. They are the youth of the Land of Jesus, a land that today is experiencing a very difficult situation. Despite the problems, […]

Scholarships for needy students, aid to families and support for women in difficulty: ATS pro Terra Sancta is launching the project “Cyprus“, whose aim is to support, through the generosity of small private donors, the valuable services of the Custody of the Holy Land to the multiethnic community of the island. In Cyprus, there is […]

The inauguration of the exhibition on Jesus’ life at Capernaum, “Through the eyes of the Apostles – A presence which overwhelms life” will take place at the upcoming Rimini Meeting. The exhibition represents one of the principal events of the 2011 edition of the noted festival to be held in Rimini from 21 to 27 […]

Three Bethlehem social workers are going on a 10-day study tour in Italy to improve their working skills and to get to see at close hand a different reality. They will depart on 19 July as part of the project “Travel for retraining and educational exchange in Italy” promoted by ATS pro Terra Sancta in […]

The two-day workshop organized by AVSI and ATS pro Terra Sancta, as part of the project “Supporting emergency education in the Palestinian Autonomous Territories” financed by Italian Development Cooperation, has concluded with an enthusiastic response from the participants. The workshop, which opened with an address given by Father Custos Pierbattista Pizzaballa, involved teachers and institutions […]

The two-day workshop in Bethlehem on the theme of education organized by AVSI and ATS pro Terra Sancta opened with a heartfelt intervention by Father Custos, Pierbattista Pizzaballa. “We are all in agreement”, declared Father Custos, “in considering education to be a key factor, but how do we move from this affirmation, which is generally […]

A great success for the exhibition “Holy Land Mosaics”, which was inaugurated 19 July at the Museum of the Old City in Hebron. More than 1,000 people, mostly Palestinian, came on the opening day to see the exhibition that recounts mosaic art in Palestine by means of copies of some of the most beautiful examples […]

Not only cinema will be presented at this year’s Giffoni Film Festival, but also music which goes beyond the differences. Among the special events will be a concert organized by the Magnificat Institute of Jerusalem which will appear with its Yasmeen choir made up of 25 Arab adolescents. The homage to Italy with “Va’Pensiero” and […]

Following the success of the exhibition of copies of the Dome of the Rock mosaics, which was on display in the Palestinian Territories and Jordan during 2009 and 2010, the Mosaic Centre of Jericho is mounting its own exhibition in Hebron of copies of ancient Palestinian mosaics. The inauguration of the exposition will take place […]

Thanks to the contributions of friends of Italian Catholic Action, the old cinema of Catholic Action in Bethlehem will in a few days reopen to families after having been shut for a number of years. The cinema was built in 1973 and was closed in 1987 during the first intifada. Since then there have been […]

A new meeting has been scheduled at the Ephpheta Institute in Bethlehem for the 19th and 20th of July, on the theme of education in the Palestinian Territories. After the success of the initiative dedicated to “training the trainers” in the field of disability, ATS pro Terra Sancta and AVSI, the lead manager for the […]

A summer camp for 200 children was held at Catholic Action of Bethlehem from 13 June to 8 July, as part of the project AVSI MAE 9226/AVSI/TOC, managed and executed by ATS pro Terra Sancta. The children of Bethlehem have at their disposal only a very few recreational and social centers in which they can […]

The new Internet site of the Custody of the Holy Land dedicated to Rhodes is available online from today in five languages, including Greek! The site recounts the history and the presence of the Franciscans on the island of Rhodes, through photos, videos, news and in-depth analyses. It is a space that serves both the […]