For years, the Custody of the Holy Land has been committed to supporting the local Christians to stay, offering them a home or renovating the existing one. This is one of the uses of the Collection of Good Friday. The mission of the Franciscan friars does not just involve the churches and sanctuaries: even the living [...]
The prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches announced in a recent press release that this year’s Good Friday Collection will benefit Christian communities whom continue to suffer persecution and violence in the Holy Land. CNS/ROME - As Christians in the Middle East continue to suffer innumerable hardships this Lenten season, the Vatican has announced [...]
For hundreds of years, the Lenten liturgies at the Holy Sepulcher have been repeated identically. The witness of Mariano da Siena, a pilgrim in 1431, shows the same schedule of prayers that took place on the third Sunday of Lent. The vespers on Saturday and on the eve, which only during the time before Easter, are [...]
The Vatican will make a contribution of one million dollars for the restoration of the Basilica of the Nativity and that of the Holy Sepulcher. The funds will be made available through the Custody of the Holy Land. The Holy See will make an important contribution for the restoration of two of the major shrines of [...]