Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Indeed.

So the patriarchs, that means the heads of the Apostolic Churches in Jerusalem, starting with the Catholic Church, they issued a statement dated January 17th, in which they stressed that only the Christian churches represent Christians in the Holy Land, and the group consists of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant bishops in Jerusalem, including the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa.

So recent activities that have been undertaken by local individuals who are advancing damaging ideologies such as Christian Zionism are misleading the public.

They're sowing confusion, and they're harming the unity of the flock.

Browning.

After fourteen hours in the saddle, we were thankful to dismount at the friendly door of the presbytery at Madaba, where, by kind permission of the Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem, we were admitted to enjoy the hospitality of the parish priest, a Piedmontese, and his assistant, an Arab, both speaking excellent French, as well as Italian, the official language of the patriarchal clergy.

We found their reception room crowded with a group of some dozen villagers, prominent among whom was a dignified-looking sheikh, who at once claimed acquaintance with the professor, and proved to have been his guide in this district upon a former occasion.

He was engaged in a discussion with the priests, which we had evidently interrupted, and the moment opportunity permitted he returned to his point.

That was Archbishop Borys Gudziak, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, speaking about mental health in Ukraine.

Three years after the October 7 attacks, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, describes a Holy Land gripped by mistrust in an interview with Vatican Radio.

Speaking to Guglielmo Gallone, he talks about the situation in Israel and the West Bank and his desire to visit Gaza again.

But the general situation of the, of the country or the land is, uh, of continuous deterioration, um, with a different dynamics, of course.

Are you planning to go back to Gaza? Of course.

Uh, um, from time to time, I, I want to go there to visit the community, uh, to meet the priests, to help and support them.

That was the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Colonel Pierbattista Pizzaballa, speaking about the situation in the Holy Land.

One year after the Gaza ceasefire agreement was reached, more than 100 humanitarian, human rights, and other civil society organizations say the ceasefire exists only in name, denouncing that Israeli forces contin- continue to kill and injure Palestinians daily, and there are restrictions on aid, equipment, and rebuilding materials.

The son, Fuad, who is the son of the woman Mary, who was killed with her mother, told Middle East Eye, quote, End quote.

And Cardinal Pierre-Baptiste de Pizabala, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem who has visited Gaza multiple times since the start of Israel's genocidal war, said in a statement that he was offering, "...his deepest condolences to the families of the deceased and to the Christian community in Gaza, praying that the Lord may grant them comfort, strength, and consolation in their loss." Fuad, the son, he was staying with his father in a separate location at the time, and he woke up to the news that his mother and grandmother were bombed to death by the IDF.

He said, quote, So the attacks continued on Sunday, and a six-year-old girl was killed.

She was in her family's tent when she was hit with gunfire.

Browning.

After fourteen hours in the saddle, we were thankful to dismount at the friendly door of the presbytery at Madaba, where, by kind permission of the Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem, we were admitted to enjoy the hospitality of the parish priest, a Piedmontese, and his assistant, an Arab, both speaking excellent French, as well as Italian, the official language of the patriarchal clergy.

We found their reception room crowded with a group of some dozen villagers, prominent among whom was a dignified-looking sheikh, who at once claimed acquaintance with the professor, and proved to have been his guide in this district upon a former occasion.

He was engaged in a discussion with the priests, which we had evidently interrupted, and the moment opportunity permitted he returned to his point.

That's quite a name, Cardinal Pierre Battista Pizzaballa.

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

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It's The Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio.

okay we are back now i promised the caller that we were talking to that i was talking to just before the break i would go back to him and i i shall do so in a moment first i want to pass along a little bit of information a little bit of a public service announcement i'm sure you've heard me talking about no doubt you've seen images of cardinal pierre batista pizzabala he's the latin patriarch of jerusalem And he's been really at the center of so much of what's been happening, the strife and pain and warfare and tragedy that's been going on in Gaza and in the greater area there in the Holy Land.

Well, I wanted to pass on, I found out this past weekend that His Beatitude, Cardinal Pizzabala, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, will be at a dinner that will be held in the Chicagoland area, and it's going to be on Saturday, December the 5th of this year.

And if you want information, you can, let's see here, you can text this number.

I don't have a website for this gala event.

So apparently by text, let's see, 708-667-6666.

So the phone number to text if you want information is 708-667-6666.

And that, again, is for this event that will be featuring the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in the Chicagoland area on December the 5th, 2026.