Order of the Holy Sepulchre Sends $3.5 Million COVID Relief Aid to Holy Land feedproxy.google.com

As many countries are still struggling to find a way out of the coronavirus epidemic, some populations are already facing its heavy economic and social consequences, including countless families in the Holy Land, many of whom depend entirely on tourism and pilgrimages.

The alarm was publicly sounded by the Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, in a July 8 interview with the Holy See’s daily newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. While recalling that pilgrimages are at a standstill there because of the worldwide travel restrictions, the archbishop claimed that thousands of families are currently unemployed — especially in the West Bank and Jordan, the poorest areas of the region. These dramatic consequences of the economic shutdown are further complicating the already highly sensitive social and political climate in the Holy Land…

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