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MESSAGE TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE MIDDLE EAST COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
Mr.Guirguis Saleh Secretary General of MECC, My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We send you our greetings in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the Holy City of Jerusalem. We have been kept up to date with the...
Read MoreCONSERVATION AND RESTORATION WORKS AT THE CHAPEL OF THE ‘PRISON OF CHRIST AND THE FAINTING OF VIRGIN MARY
On Thursday 26th /9th of July 2009 His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, escorted by Archbishops and priests of the Patriarchate, descended to the Church of Resurrection, where He was received by the Sacristan Rev. Archimandrite Fr. Isidoros and...
Read MorePREPARING THE WAY FOR THE BAPTISM OF PILGRIMS AT THE JORDAN RIVER
His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III visited the Holy Monastery of St. John the Baptist by the Jordan River and the traditional Biblical place where the Lord was baptised. The visit took place on Wednesday July 8th 2009 in...
Read MoreINAUGURATION OF THE RESTORED OLIVE PRESS OF THE CHURCH OF RESURRECTION
On Saturday 23rd of May 2009 at the Church of Resurrection the ceremony of the Blessing of the Water was performed on the occasion of the inauguration of the restored part of the Church known as ‘doheo’. The site, located...
Read MoreTHE FEAST OF ST. CONSTANTINE AND ST. HELEN CELEBRATED IN THE PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM
In the person of Emperor Constantine the Great and his Mother Empress St. Helen, the Church acknowledges the divinely crowned royals and equal-to-the-apostles. It is so because they embraced Christianity, they gave an end to the three century long Christian...
Read MoreVISIT OF THE POPE OF ROME BENEDICT XVI TO THE HOLY LAND
On the 2nd of December 2008 the Apostolic Delegate Msgr. Antonio Franco, the representative of the Pope to the Holy Land, visited His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophillos III and informed him of the intention of the Pope of Rome...
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