Mission and approach

The mission of ATS Pro Terra Sancta is to support the Custody of the Holy Land in its tasks in the Holy Land:

Preserving the Holy Places dear to Christianity in the Holy Land

Supporting the Christian community in the Holy Land and the Middle East

These tasks were entrusted to the Custody of the Holy Land by the Church. ATS Pro Terra Sancta would like to give everyone the opportunity to contribute to the fulfillment of this mission in the Holy Land.

The work of ATS Pro Terra Sancta is based on the ultimate conviction that anyone who has had an encounter with Christ is able to share the Good News with others, and it is his duty to do so not just in the Holy Land. There is no separation between being and communicating, between having an experience and sharing it. ATS Pro Terra Sancta carries out and promotes projects for the Christian population in the Holy Land with the goal of living according this conviction.

“Having the Custodianship of the Holy Places: this has been our primary task and remains so today … after the end of the Crusades, the only persons who could remain in a land in the hands of the Muslims were the Franciscans. For this reason the Pope entrusted to the Order the task of recovering the Holy Places of Redemption and then of caring for them and also reconstituting a Catholic presence around the sanctuaries, to save an essential principle: to ensure that they were not just stones, but living stones”- Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Custos of the Holy Land and President of ATS Pro Terra Sancta

The work of ATS Pro Terra Sancta is characterized by a respect for certain fundamental principles:

Loving
each individual and his personal destiny

Dialoguing
with all entities present to identify real existing needs

Jointly formulating
Targeted projects and strategies with the people on site

Promoting
future-oriented initiatives

Supporting
the Custody of the Holy Land in the fulfillment of its mission to preserve the Christian tradition and heritage

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Help support the Holy Places. Maintain the Christian Community in the Holy Land:

http://www.proterrasancta.org/en/help/

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