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John Paul II Foundation / Magazine (Page 11)

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November 12, 2022

Often, especially upon returning from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, one gets the impression that the ecumenical journey, which has given Christians so many and so many fruits, sometimes not always all known and shared, is struggling to establish itself there where Jesus lived and the Christian experience was born. This impression, often corroborated by personal encounters in some places of worship, is reinforced by the images of clashes between Christians that certain media and social media bounce around the world to feed the idea that Christians cannot overcome the time of confrontations and divisions....

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November 12, 2022

The "Effetà Paul VI" Institute in Bethlehem, a specialized school for the phonetic reeducation of hearing-impaired children in Palestine, was inaugurated on June 30, 1971. Its origin, however, is rooted in a historical moment, that of St. Paul VI's trip to the Holy Land in 1964. It was a truly unforgettable event, since he was the first pope to return to where everything for Christians had begun. During the trip, Paul VI had the opportunity to note the presence of a large number of deaf children who were not receiving adequate assistance and expressed the desire that a work intended for their rehabilitation be born....

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November 12, 2022

It was January 4, 1964, when Pope Paul VI arrived in Jerusalem, entering through the Damascus Gate on his way to the Holy Sepulcher. Paul VI's was a historic and unforgettable trip to the Holy Land: it was in fact the first time that a successor of Peter returned to the places where Jesus was born and lived, where the Church was born, where "we are all born," as the psalm goes. Those were the years of the Second Vatican Council, and Pope Paul VI strongly wanted that trip....

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November 11, 2022

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....

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November 11, 2022

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....

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November 11, 2022

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....

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