The Franciscan Schools… an untold story of excellence

Submitted by munir on Sun, 11/03/2024 - 08:54

Education is the mainstay of advancement in countries. It is one of the major bases for building civilized nations whose aim is to achieve peace and prosperity as a well as attain progress in all walks of life.

 

Among most of the renowned schools that made extremely tangible progress in societies and helped promote societies into a new era of  glory are the Franciscan-run schools in all parts of the world, particularly in the Middle East.

 

The revelation of an emigrant

Submitted by munir on Thu, 10/31/2024 - 10:52

After a quarter of a century of emigration and being away from the homeland, media colleague and writer Bashar Jarrar returns to Jordan to launch his two books, namely “The Revelation of an Emigrant”  and  “Qurbano” at Terra Sancta College where he had pursued his studies. He says with clarity that is not devoid of anguish: “I never encourage emigration” or rather “travel but do not emigrate.” As if he is saying to the generations nowadays who want to look for a better life in a place far from their homeland: “Never think that happiness awaits you in foreign countries.

Pope Francis tells the Christians of the East: “You are sprouts of hope”

Submitted by munir on Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:25

Pope Francis' letter to the Christians in the East incorporates several messages. He chose to publish it on October 7, which is a pivotal day that affected all components of the Arab people in one way or another, including the Christians who opted to remain in the Gaza Strip, in churches--especially the Church of the Holy Family and the Church of Saint Porphyrius--and who experience daily martyrdom, hunger, as well as all kinds of physical and psychological pain.

 

With the King… we reject a world governed by capitulation

Submitted by munir on Wed, 09/25/2024 - 13:50

I write this time from the United States of America, and though the body is here, the heart is there, particularly in Gaza, which has been tormented for about a year, yet the suffering is escalating nowadays in fraternal Lebanon. It is Lebanon that recently marked two great ecclesiastical figures, namely the beatification of Patriarch Estephan El-Douaihy, who led the Maronite Church between 1672 and 1704, and Armenian Patriarch Cardinal Gregory Peter XV Agaganian, who was one of the most prominent religious figures in the world and whose body was returned to Beirut in a grand offi

At the parish of Our Lady of the Holy Land in Chicago

Submitted by munir on Mon, 09/23/2024 - 07:10

In August 2009, I came to Chicago, whereby the founding committee for the establishment of an Arab Catholic parish invited me to celebrate a Holy Mass which I did with pleasure, during which I prayed for the families present from different regions. The beautiful dream that Mr. Majdi Bader and his companions had at the time was to establish a church that would serve a mother church that encompasses at its people. At the time, we prayed fervently for the church to see the light.