Tag: custody of the holy land

Melkite Celebrations for the Closing month of the Year of Saint Paul

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 at Bethlehem

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…

In the Holy Land there is room for everyone

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…

Pope Benedict Journeys to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

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…

Papal Greetings to the People of the Holy Land

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…