A relationship of great affection and collaboration has been built over time between the John Paul II Foundation and the Effetà Institute. When it comes to concrete works, in the specific case hundreds of Palestinian hearing-impaired children and youth in urgent, and sometimes desperate, need of care and assistance, certain loyalties can also be weighed and measured....
The situation in the Palestinian Territories continues to be particularly fragile socially, politically and economically. The socio-economic fabric of Palestine, made up of 90 percent small or even micro businesses, has seen heavy closures imposed by the pandemic over the past year....
Every day 30 kilometers to reach the Effetà Institute. Marwan loves his class and would never give it up. There he found help to overcome his difficulties, communicate with others and hope for a better future....
On a day in May, about ten years ago, I met with Effeta and the John Paul II Foundation. They had asked me for an availability for Bethlehem, a child neuropsychiatrist was needed....
One of the fruits of Paul VI's "pilgrimage" to the Holy Land was a commitment to create realities capable of fostering a dialogue based on knowledge and promoting an ever better understanding of one's own identity precisely in confrontation with other religious traditions, beginning with the different Christian denominations, especially those that enrich the Catholic Church....
On December 4, 1963, in his closing address to the Second Session of the Second Vatican Council, Paul VI announced to the Council Fathers his intention to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Paul VI wanted to invite everyone, not only Catholics, to rethink the centrality of the life of Jesus Christ and the birth of the Christian experience for the witness of the Word of God in the world....
We caught up in Bethlehem with Rony Tabash a young entrepreneur who has always lived in the city where Jesus was born. He is a dynamic and enterprising young man, but the Covid and more than a year and a half of no tourists and pilgrims are testing him....
Meeting with Cardinal Mario Zenari apostolic nuncio in Damascus...
"Don't forget Syria" Companies, associations, hospitals. So much concrete help has come from Tuscany for a people who have suffered unspeakable pain but have not lost dignity and hope...
Since the appearance of the first internal clashes, which would degenerate into the civil war, which still bloody Syria, the voices of ecumenical bodies have been raised to condemn all forms of violence, to call for dialogue for peace in justice, to activate all forms of welcome for refugees and to promote solidarity projects in and for Syria....