January 12, 2013

Holy Land Coordination special - Veronica Scarisbrick has just returned from the Holy Land where she's been travelling with a delegation of bishops from Europe and North America on their annual pilgrimage there. The bishops wish is to express solidarity and bring support to Christian communities across Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. Veronica brings us reports and interviews relating to this pilgrimage. Among the guests on her programme are the Apostolic Nuncio to Israel Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, Bishop Gerald Frederick Kikanas of Tucson Arizona in the United States , Bishop Declan Lang representing England and Wales, Caritas Jordan's Programme Director Omar Abawi, A Franciscan and a Comboni sister involved respectively in ministering to Christian prisoners and to Africans trafficked from Egypt to Israel. The programme also includes a couple of reports originally filed live from the Holy Land.

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