Terra Santa (Holy Land) News from the Custody of the Holy Land

“HARMONY WITHOUT LIMITS”: A NEW ORGAN AT THE HOLY SEPULCHER
A votive Mass was celebrated at Calvary to bless the new organ of the basilica. A new harmony will resonate at the Holy Sepulcher.

“NEED FOR WATER” IN BETHLEHEM TO COMBAT WATER CRISIS
The project of the Pro Terra Sancta Association in support for the Palestinian families: concrete initiatives to combat water emergency in progress.

THEFT AND DAMAGES TO THE BASILICA ON MOUNT TABOR
Unknown persons furtively broke into the Basilica of the Transfiguration to rob the holy place: some damage reported.

TOURISM IN THE HOLY LAND AND TODAY’S CHALLENGES
It is the most important sector of the country’s economy, but also the most unstable.
(Comments on tourism and pilgrimages by the guides and Palestinian traders).

THE BEDOUINS AND THE HISTORY OF THE “POPE’S HILL”
About 300 Bedouins live in what is called ‘the Pope’s Hill’, near Bethany, east of Jerusalem. The land was a gift from King Hussein of Jordan to Pope Paul VI, on the occasion of the Pope’s visit to the Holy Land.