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Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land
About the Franciscan
Foundation
for the Holy Land
FFHL was
founded in 1994, under the auspices of the Franciscan Custody, to help stem
the Christian exodus from the Holy Land as well as to secure social justice,
mitigate suffering and foster world wide awareness of the plight of the
region's 'forgotten faithful'.
The
Memorial Hall project is of high importance both to Christianity in general
as well as to Christian Believers in particular. Christian Believers see the
Holy Sites as the Cradle of Christianity, the real and eternal proof of
Jesus Christ's existence.
As a result, they feel a religious, ethical and moral commitment to protect
the Holy Sites and support the Community which fulfills this commitment in
their name in the Holy Land. Above all, each Christian Believer dreams of
making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, to follow in the footsteps of Jesus
and pray at the Holy Sites for the wellbeing of himself and that of his
family.
The project gives Christian Believers from all over the world, the
opportunity to take an active part, together with the Christian Community in
the Holy Land, in protecting the Holy Sites and the Christian tradition in
the Holy Land for future generations.
The project gives each individual Christian Believer the opportunity to be
linked to the Holy Sites, through prayers and personal requests, even though
they might be unable to visit these important sites themselves.
The project gives Christian Believers a historic opportunity to commemorate
their name, or that of their loved ones, at the Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem, and in doing so, purchase for themselves a measure of personal
remembrance at this Holy Site.
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The Memorial
Project at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was
created with the purpose of giving Christian Believers,
especially those who cannot visit the Holy Land, the
opportunity to commemorate their names and that or their
loved ones on plaques affixed to the walls of the oldest
Church found within the Church of the Nativity - the Church
known as the Crusader Church- as well as within the
Community Hall of the Church of the Nativity itself, later
to become Halls of Prayer and Commemoration for the names on
the walls.
Prayers at
these sites is very important to Christian Believers and so,
prayers and candle-lighting in commemoration of the names
there inscribed will be held at these sites by the Fathers
of the Franciscan Foundation, the guardians of the Church of
the Nativity.
For
Commemoration on wall plaques
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