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Emergency, Education And Development

Supporting the weakest elements of the population: elderly, families, children; interventions to offer support in cases of conflict and emergency; educational and professional training projects; construction and maintenance of buildings.

EMERGENCY SYRIA

The dramatic deterioration of events in Syria is showing no sign of letting up. Each day increasingly grave news is being received from the Franciscan friars of the Custody of [...]
 
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Jerusalem, Stones of memory in the Holy land

This project is part of a larger program launched by the Custody of the Holy Land with the aim of providing aid to the poorest families. The project has a [...]
 
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Bethlehem and the children in the Holy Land

Help for the Little Ones is a project to promote the personal and social growth of needy children and youth. The complex political and economic situation strikes hard at the many children and adolescents who do not receive an adequate education. What more many of them have troubles at school due to violent and extremely difficult family situations.
 
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Bethlehem and elderly people in the Holy Land

The Custody of the Holy Land wishes to be of support for the families taking care of the elderly and to sustain works of the Antonian Society of Bethlehem, which has attempted to help the poorest and the least well-off since 1913.
 
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“Magnificat” – Music in the Holy Land

The complex and unresolved political situation in the Holy Land and particularly in the Holy City of Jerusalem is a cause of great social instability affecting primarily young people and [...]
 
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APPEAL: Emergency Egypt

APPEAL Help support the charity of the Franciscan friars of the Custody of the Holy Land in Egypt. In these days of heightened tensions we appeal to everyone to support [...]
 
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Jericho: aid to Christians in need

Jericho is a small oasis in the desert, known for the different miracles that Christ performed there. The Christian community of Jericho is the smallest of all those in the [...]
 
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Emergency Gaza

A small minority of about 2,500 Christians live in the Gaza strip among a total population of 1.5 million. The population and specifically the children suffer from extreme hardship due [...]
 
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Cyprus

It is these ancient ties and significant occurrences that render Cyprus an area of sacred land.  Caught between past and present, it possesses an incredible wealth of ancient ruins which [...]
 
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Memory and Culture
The Holy Places

Preservation and enhancement of archaeological areas and sanctuaries; safeguarding the historical, artistic and cultural heritage of the Custody of the Holy Land; production and distribution of informative materials on the Holy Places.

Telling the Story of the Holy Land

It is important to make the Holy Land and the history and culture of Christian presence in the Middle East known to the whole world, both Christian and not. To [...]
 
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Gethsemane: preserve the past and train the future

The church Gethsemane, at the foot of the Mount of Olives, is the place reminding us of the beginning of the Passion of Christ. The Gospels attest that Jesus was [...]
 
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Sabastiya, a site in the Holy Land from past to present

The Italian Office for Development Cooperation, the Municipality of Sabastya and ATS work together for the conservation and enhancement of the cultural heritage of Sabastya
 
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iBreviary Pro Terra Sancta

Prayer and the Holy Land on your tablet Praying is always possible because the time of the Christian is the time of the risen Christ who remains “with us always”. [...]
 
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Capernaum – the city of Jesus in the Holy Land

The small fishing village Capernaum is of significant meaning to the history of Christianity. It was here that important events in the public life of Jesus Christ took place. Thus Capernaum is to be considered a jewel among the many historical and religious sites of the Holy Land. Capernaum needs to be presented accordingly, in order to reveal its secret to the open public.
 
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The center of the world

Despite the large number of visitors and pilgrims who visit the most sacred place in Christianity each day there is not actually anywhere in Jerusalem dedicated to providing information about [...]
 
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Books, Bridges of Peace

The Holy Land, a crossroads of peoples and religions. Scene of age-old conflicts, but also a place of hope. Here for five centuries the libraries of the Custody of the [...]
 
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Nazareth- a place of pilgrimage in the Holy Land

Nazareth is the place in the Holy Land where the Incarnation of God occurred, a place central to Christian daily life and it has a profound message for our times. [...]
 
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Franciscan Media Center – News from the Holy Land

The situation in the Holy Land has, for a long time, been marked by complex political tensions, religious radicalism, a state of continuous emergency and social unrest. In this difficult [...]
 
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