Patriarch Twal: Easter in the Holy Land

(Vatican Radio) Five rockets fired from the Palestinian-run Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel during this Easter Monday morning. No one was injured. Military officials said they had not responded to the salvo.

But residents of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza said an Israeli helicopter opened fire there, though it was not clear what it was targeting.

Pope Francis is due to visit the Holy Land from the 24^th to the 26^th of May.

Vatican Radio spoke to The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal who spoke to us about Easter in the Holy Land especially in light of the Pope’s upcoming visit there.

He says, that in this season of Easter in the Holy Land despite the problems in the region, … “we want to be at the same time a Church of Resurrection, of hope of welcoming of collaboration with all of us.” Listen