Jordan, which is an integral part of the Holy Land, has recently received a boost in the field of religious tourism when the National Association of Directors of Christian Pilgrimage in France (Association Nationale des Directeurs de Pèlerinages/ANNNP) announced recently that their next meeting will be held in Jordan in November 2023 marking its 75th anniversary.
In his address at the COP27 climate change conference, Holy See Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that “we cannot ignore the link between the climate crisis and lack of access to food and water." He furthermore stressed that hunger, conflict, climate and inequality are firmly interconnected".
In 2001, UNESCO designated the 10th of November as the World Science Day for Peace and Development. “This day highlights the important role of science in society and the need to engage the wider public in discussions on emerging scientific issues.
With wars and a state of instability erupting in various parts of the world culminating in the outbreak of the Ukraine-Russian conflict, people of good will focus attention on the children who lost their parents and homes as well as were deprived of the opportunity to live a normal life by being bereft of attending schools, thus wrecking the prospects for a bright future in the melee of non-ending conflagrations.
The ITA plane was peacefully flying in the skies of Europe, over the Mediterranean and slightly edging over Asia and Africa. But when it entered the Jordanian airspace from the south, four planes belonging to the Royal Jordanian Air Force flew to cordially accompany a grand friend hovering over the Holy Land, namely Pope Francis who was heading at the time from Italy to Bahrain on a four-day visit.
Lord Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
Upon concluding his visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain, which took place on November 3-6, His Holiness Pope Francis will have visited seven Arab countries including Jordan--the land of Baptism, Palestine, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates.
Pope Francis is the guest of the Kingdom of Bahrain on November 3-6. In fact, this is neither the first time that the Pope comes to Arab countries, nor is the first time that he visits a Gulf state.
Press reports have indicated that Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitri Peskov said that the Russian government is willing to talk with Pope Francis to find a solution to the war in Ukraine.
In 1986, specifically on October 27, religious leaders met with representatives of various Churches in the Italian township of Assisi, about 175 kilometers north of the capital, Rome, at the kind invitation of Pope John Paul II, who at that time wanted to pray for peace, harmony and unity among followers of religions for the attainment of a more comprehensive human solidarity.
