We were many people from 32 countries for the meeting with Patriarch Pizzaballa and with some representatives of the local Church and of the pilgrims who come to the Holy Land and who we hope will return soon.
It was a very intense moment of universal fraternity, an opportunity to get to know at first hand the hopes and difficulties and also the complexity in which the Christians of the Mother Church of Jerusalem live, especially in this time of pandemic.
It was a first moment, others will follow!
Participating countries
AMERICA: Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela. EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, England, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Ukraine. AFRICA: Burundi, Kenya, DR Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia. ASIA and HOLY LAND: India, Myanmar, Philippines, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine.
PROGRAMME
•Introduction Rafael Corso – National President CA Argentina and Coordinator of the IFCA Secretariat
•Prayer +Eduardo Garcia – National Assistant CA Argentina and IFCA Ecclesiastical Assistant
•Interview with Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa (from minute 14,42 to minute 41 and from minute 1.13 to minute 1.17)
text in italian
– Homily 1 January 2021
•Interventions
– Duniana Zahran Young people of the association YJHP Youth Jesus’s Homeland Palestine
– Vincenzo Bellomo Project Dar al Majus Community Home Bethlehem
– Niveen Andraws from Jordan
– Lucio Turra Italian Catholic Action and the Holy Land
•Blessing from Jerusalem
•Greetings
•Coordinator: Chiara Santomiero – IFCA Press Office
