Terra Santa News 01/05/2020

2020-04-30 19:07:23
BLESSED VIRGIN OF MOUNT CARMEL IN HAIFA- THE ROUTE OF THE PROCESSION CHANGED The "Procession of the Virgin to Mount Carmel" in Haifa. Due to the restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus, the traditional route was modified, and the statue of the Virgin crossed the districts of the city inhabited by Christian families. TECHNOLOGY AT THE SERVICE OF THE ACADEMIC TEACHING OF SACRED SCRIPTURE The Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem keeps its doors closed, but activities continue at full speed, thanks to the online lessons. A challenge for teachers and students. In recent days the first online discussions of the dissertations. TEN LUNG VENTILATORS FOR SYRIA, ON BEHALF OF THE POPE 10 lung ventilators will be donated, on behalf of the Pope, by the Congregation for the Oriental Churches of the Holy See to three health facilities in Syria, involved since 2016 in the "Open Hospitals" project of the Italian association AVSI. THE “BREAD OF ANGELS" IS MADE IN RHODES From the production of hosts to the cultivation of vegetables to help poor people and refugees. The testimony of Brother John Luke Gregory, a friar of the Custody of the Holy Land to which the Latin parishes of Rhodes and Kos are entrusted.

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