About 300 Bedouins live in what is called 'the Pope's Hill', near Bethany, east of Jerusalem. The land was a gift from King Hussein of Jordan to Pope Paul VI, on the occasion of the Pope's visit to the Holy Land in 1964. This group of Bedouins, considered part of the nomadic Arab people, was transferred [...]
Unknown persons furtively broke into the Basilica of the Transfiguration to rob the holy place. An act of depredation in a Christian church in the Holy Land. In the night between Sunday, October 23 and Monday, October 24, unknown persons broke into the Basilica of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. The tabernacle, the altar of the [...]
On May 31, 2016, the Palestinian Lawyer Fouad Shihadeh entered the Guinness Book of World Records. A success story despite his blindness due to an accident.