Here is Patriarch Gregorios’ General Report on the Bimillennial Year of the Birth of St Paul. It contains reference to an important conference in Damascus in April 2009, convened by the Custody…
Tag: custody of the holy land
On Sunday 7th. June, in the evening, His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III, together with four bishops, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Mismiyeh, where Saint Paul is traditionally thought to have stayed during…
Pope Benedict prays in the Holy Sepulchre on visiting the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem and leaders of other Christian Churches and communities in Jerusalem at the close of his pastoral visit…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 14 May 2009: The Pope has today visited the Basilica and the Grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem.The present situation of co-ownership and administration of the Basilica…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 13 May 2009: Today, Benedict XVI travelled from the apostolic delegation in Jerusalem to the presidential palace of the Palestinian Authority in Bethlehem, a distance of ten…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 12 May 2009: Today Benedict XVI travelled to the Valley of Josaphat, located in front of the Basilica of Gethsemane and the Mount of Olives, where he…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 12 May 2009: Today, the Holy Father travelled by car from the “Hechal Shlomo” Centre in Jerusalem to the Cenacle, where he prayed the Angelus with ordinaries…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 8 May 2000: This morning, during his flight from Rome to the Jordanian capital city of Amman, Benedict XVI granted a brief interview to journalists accompanying him…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 8 May 2009: The Holy Father departed from Rome‘s Fiumicino airport at 9.50 a.m. today. Following a four-hour flight, his plane landed at the Queen Alia airport…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 6 May 2009, that the Pope at his weekly General Audience, recalling how on Friday he will begin his apostolic trip to the Holy Land, read out…