The Incarnate Word priests and nuns in Holy Family Parish in Gaza have been awarded the Achille Silvestrini International Prize for Dialogue and Peace

The Incarnate Word priests and nuns in Holy Family Parish in Gaza have been awarded the Achille Silvestrini International Prize for Dialogue and Peace.

Cardinal Pizzaballa will receive the award on their behalf at a ceremony this month in Italy

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is an Italian member of the Franciscan Order and a Roman Catholic cardinal who has been serving as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since 6 November 2020. After being received into the Franciscan Order in 1984, he spent his novitiate at the Franciscan Shrine of La Verna in Arezzo, Italy. In 1990, after having obtained a diploma in classical studies from the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Ferrara as well as a bachelor's degree in theology from the Pontifical University Antonianum and having been ordained a priest, he was called to service in the Holy Land. Wikipedia

Palestine Palm Sunday.... Before 1948 ... when all Palestinians were free to come and go from Jerusalem

Students from Notre Dame de Sion walking on the Palm Sunday procession from Bethphage on the Mount of Olives to the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, c. 1932

 

The nuns from Notre Dame de Sion on the Palm Sunday procession from Bethphage on the Mount of Olives to the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, c. 1932

BBC News: Bethlehem nuns in West Bank barrier battle

When completed, only about 15% of the barrier will be constructed on the Green Line or in Israel

[AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16656978

The barrier Israel has been building in and around the West Bank is set to deprive a Christian community of its land, and appears to have caused an unholy row between some monks and nuns - who could now end up on opposite sides.

By Yolande Knell
BBC News, Jerusalem
 
In the green Cremisan valley, west of Bethlehem, a goatherd leans against a rock while his flocks graze under the olive and fig trees.

Nearby, a narrow road winds along the hillside to a 19th Century convent and a secluded monastery where monks run the only Palestinian winery.

For the mainly Christian town of Beit Jala, this is the local beauty spot. Residents come here to take a stroll or for a weekend barbecue. Many own small plots of agricultural land.

They also send their children to the convent school and visit the monastery to sell grapes or buy its wine.

That is why an Israeli government plan to build a wall through the valley, cutting off their access to most of it, is causing great alarm...READ MORE

The Salesian Sisters worry that the barrier could close down their school for Palestinian children