Tag: Holy Land
Bishops meet with students at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University
Greetings from the holy city of Jerusalem where we’re here with the Holy Land Co-ordination. Our focus this year is on young people and we had a wonderful meeting this afternoon (15 January 2018) at the Hebrew University with a number of young students – law students who have a passion for human rights and…
Canadian Bishop comments on his visit to schools in the Holy Land
Good day. I’m here with the Holy Land Co-ordination and the second day of our visit was dedicated to education. This morning we visited the offices of the people in charge of all the schools for the Latin Patriarchate – schools in Israel but mainly in Jordan and Palestine. I would say it’s really impressive how…
South African Archbishop talks about the Holy Land Co-ordination visit to Gaza
Greetings! I am Steven Breslin, the Catholic Archbishop of the Diocese of Cape Town in South Africa. The Holy Land Coordination is a group of Bishops who come to the Holy Land every year in January. This year, we are 13 bishops from various different countries and our aim, of course, is to give support and…
Hope for the future in the Holy Land
Bishops from across Europe, North America and South Africa will meet in the Holy Land over the coming days to promote dialogue and peace, while meeting young people. This annual visit was set up 20 years ago at the invitation of the Holy See with the aim of visiting and supporting the Holy Land’s local…
Britain’s Broken Promise: Time for a New Approach
Thank you for inviting me to address this important event tonight. I would like to start by sharing two brief memories of my most recent visit to the Holy Land;
You are not forgotten
We take away our experiences and the stories that we have heard, and we are determined to give a voice to the voiceless.
Plight of Iraqi Christians: Bishops highlight harsh situation of refugees from Isis persecuted for their faith
The international group of mainly Catholic bishops will use their journey around the region’s beleaguered Christian communities to draw world attention to the harsh conditions faced by Iraqi Christians who were driven from their homes by the Isis advance in the summer of 2014.
Statement from Bishop Declan Lang on recent violence in the Holy Land
As I pray for the dead and injured from both the Palestinian and Israeli sides, I also call upon both communities and their leaderships to exercise restraint and refrain from going down the slippery road of tit-for-tat killings and mutual recrimination.
Message from the Plenary Assembly of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences, Holy Land 2015
They also express their thanks to the religious, in this year devoted to the Consecrated Life, and to all the Christians whom they have met and who live in this Land, for their testimony of faith and safekeeping of the Holy Places as places of Christian remembrance and living worship.
Bishops call for human dignity as basis for peace in Holy Land
“Human dignity is given by God and is absolute. The ongoing conflict assaults the dignity of both Palestinians and Israelis, but in a particular way our commitment to the poor calls us to lift up the suffering people in Gaza.
Bishops to visit local Christian communities in Gaza
The Christian community of Gaza is again the focal point of this year’s visit to the Holy Land by Bishops from across Europe, North America and South Africa in support of the local Christian communities and the pastoral work of the Church at the service of all in the Holy Land. The Holy Land Co-ordination…
Catholics and Anglicans hold an hour of prayer to support Pope’s visit to the Holy Land
Catholics and Anglicans will unite in prayer at the very hour that Pope Francis will visit the Christians of Bethlehem on Sunday 25 May between 3pm and 4pm (UK time). Cardinal Nichols said: “Many of our Catholic parishes will hold an hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament at exactly the time when Pope Francis…