In anticipation of Holy Week, the Custody's Lenten pilgrimages made a stop at the Chapel of Condemnation, where - according to the Gospel - Pilate condemns Jesus to death and has him loaded with the cross.

500 students from Catholic schools in Jerusalem, retraced the Via Dolorosa. The "people of the cross" in prayer against violence.

The Lenten pilgrimages to the sites of the Passion continue. This week the Custody friars stopped at the Flagellation, Bethany and the Mount of Olives.

The Lenten pilgrimages to the sites of the Passion continue. This week we are at the foot of the Mount of Olives in the Basilica of Gethsemane.

At the Shrine of Dominus Flevit on the Mount of Olives, the Lenten pilgrimages to the Places of the Passion have begun. An ancient tradition to keep alive the memory of the Christians of the first centuries.

Tra distruzioni e grandi sofferenze, i cristiani di Aleppo si sono incontrati per l'inizio della Quaresima. Anche a Gerusalemme, nel Santo Sepolcro, sono iniziate le celebrazioni.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of a new journey in the Church, a time for the faithful to pray, fast and do penance.

This year, the Via Crucis takes place in the month of Muslim fasting and just hours before the start of the Passover celebration.

The traditional rite of foot washing at the Last Supper: a commandment, an example, a nourishment.

On the evening of Holy Thursday, in Jerusalem, the appointment is in the basilica at the foot of the Mount of Olives, in the place where Jesus prayed before his arrest: "Stay here and keep vigil with me".

The appeal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, H.B. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, during the celebration of Holy Thursday: "Let us return to the community".

Thousands of faithful and pilgrims walked the path from Beitfage to Jerusalem, the same path that Jesus walked to enter Jerusalem.

In Jerusalem, Holy Week began with Mass and the procession of the Palms in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre.

On the morning of Saturday, April 9, more than two thousand Indian and Sri Lankan migrants and refugees followed the Palm procession from Beitfage to the Basilica of Gethsemane.

In the last stage of the Lenten journey, Holy Mass was celebrated in the place that commemorates the condemnation of Christ under Pontius Pilate.

The General Secretariat of the Christian Schools of Jerusalem organized for fourteen schools a prayer, retracing the Way of the Cross, in the Old City of Jerusalem, entitled "Let us walk together in the footsteps of Jesus”.

In the third week of Lent, we stop at the Church of the Flagellation to reflect on Jesus' condemnation.

Joseph of Arimathea is one of the few to touch the body of Jesus after His death. Like a relic he prepares Him for burial and lays Him in the tomb. The only tomb in the world where today we come to remember a living person.

The second Lenten pilgrimage of the Custody of the Holy Land takes us to Gethsemane, where we relive the moments of Jesus' agony and Judas' betrayal.

We meet the Roman soldier on guard at Calvary, who struck Jesus with a spear to make sure he was dead. Blood and water flowed from Jesus' side, and new life for Longinus.

The Franciscans' Lenten pilgrimages to the holy places have begun in Jerusalem. The small Church of Dominus Flevit, with a tear-shaped chapel, recalls the Gospel episode in which Jesus wept for the future of Jerusalem.

Veronica is one of the most mysterious figures in the Gospels: is she the woman who wiped Jesus' face during the ascent to Calvary or the bleeding woman? In Jerusalem, tradition indicates the sixth station of the Via Dolorosa as her home.

Jesus ascends to Calvary carrying the cross among a crowd of bystanders. Of that undistinguished crowd we remember the name of one man, Simon, who was forced to carry the cross of Jesus.

Jesus' Way of the Cross begins at Pilate's Praetorium. Here Jesus is interrogated and sentenced to death. It is the only time Pilate sees Jesus, but his life will be marked by this encounter.