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Churches stand on the hill in Jordan behind the Franciscan Chapel of St. John The Baptist at Qasr al-Yahud, on the West Bank of the Jordan River in December 2020. The bullet-marked chapel was returned to the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land in October after being closed by the Israelis in 1967 as a closed military zone with mine fields. Photo: CNS/Debbie Hill

With land mines gone, Mass to be celebrated at West Bank baptismal site

QASR AL-YAHUD, West Bank – For the first time in 54 years, a Mass will be celebrated January 10, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, at St. John the Baptist Chapel on the banks of the Jordan River.

January 5, 2021
Published in International

Olives from olive trees whose history extends back tot hte time of Christ lay beside the Church of All Nations in the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem, Oct. 21. Franciscan priests and volunteers pick the small fruits where Jesus prayed on the night of his arrest. Photo: CNS/Debbie Hill

Olive harvest at Garden of Gethsemane unites faithful with Christ

JERUSALEM - For Salim Badawi, a Greek Orthodox Palestinian from the West Bank village of Beit Jalla, the opportunity to help a group of Franciscan priests harvest olives in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives offers a sense of hope amid the adversaries his family has faced in their own olive groves.