According to a recent study done by UNICEF, violence in Palestinian schools is growing: almost 50% of children assisted to episodes of violence in class, 51% admitted to have used [...]
The church of the Franciscan parish in Damascus, located near the gate of Bab Touma, was hit today afternoon by a mortar shell that damaged the dome and broke some [...]
“We want to go back to the Terra Sancta Museum!” The students of the Al-Nur school of special education keep on repeating this motto, at the end of the visit to [...]
A sigh of relief for the sick, the elderly and the children of Bethlehem, thanks to the generous support of the Fondation Françoise d'Assise to the work of the Franciscan Social [...]
They wait all day, doing nothing. Some of them only wait for a few days, others for weeks, and in some cases they wait for months. They are all refugees [...]
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Dear men and women of good will, May the Lord give you peace! On our own behalf, and that of our confrères who live in the Middle [...]
“I've never come across so many people who have had such an effect on me, in such a short period of time.” So says Maria, at the close of the [...]
The cataloguing of the 17th century books preserved at the General Library of the Custody of the Holy Land has recently been completed. This represents a further step in the [...]