The bishops of the Holy Land Coordination traveled to the Holy Land from Europe, North America and South Africa to express the Church's closeness to the Christian communities of Israel and Palestine. Challenges, conflicts and attempts at reconciliation: in this context, the Holy Land welcomed the Holy Land Coordination, a group of bishops who arrived in [...]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Conveying Pope Francis' closeness to the Syrian people, a Vatican delegation visited Aleppo following the end of the hostilities that left thousands dead and the city in ruins. Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso, secretary-delegate of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, visited the city Jan. 18-23, accompanied by Cardinal Mario Zenari, apostolic [...]
Andrzej Duda, the President of Poland, visited the holy places for the first time, and was accompanied by his wife, Agatha Kornhauser-Duda. Follwing the Polish Prime Minister Beata Szylo’s visit in November, the President traveled to the places that are symbolic of Christianity, during his official visit to Israel and Palestine. On the first day, January [...]
On January 17, in the city of Nazareth, a mass was celebrated in memory of Saint Anthony. The Egyptian saint of the fourth century was a pioneer of the monastic life. On January 17, on the feast of St. Anthony the Great, in Nazareth, in a seventeenth century church dedicated to him, a solemn Mass was [...]