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Approximately 1,000 children and youth from Christian schools in Jerusalem walk the Via Dolorosa in the Old City on Feb. 23, 2024, offering prayers for peace. The crowd brought life to the streets of the Holy City for the first time since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war last October. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
A small crowd of students and professors from Christian schools in Jerusalem gather in the courtyard of the Flagellation complex in Jerusalem to take part in the Way of the Cross organized by the Custody of the Holy Land on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, on the occasion of Lent. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
The beginning of the Way of the Cross for Christian school children in Jerusalem, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in front of the Church of the Flagellation. From left to right, in the front line: Father Adolfo Tito Yllana, apostolic delegate to Jerusalem; Brother Francis Patton, custos of the Holy Land; Brother Ibrahim Faltas, vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land and director of the Terra Sancta Schools, who organized the event; Rev. Canon Wadie Far, dean of St. George’s College of the Anglican Church. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
A group of children gather around the vandalized statue of Jesus at the beginning of the Way of the Cross for Christian school children in Jerusalem, organized by the Custody of the Holy Land, on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
Students and teachers from Jerusalem Christian schools walk the Way of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. The yearly event was organized by the Custody of the Holy Land on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, on the occasion of Lent. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
Two children hold doves, which they released moments later, during the Way of the Cross for Christian school students in Jerusalem held on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. The first eight stations took place along the traditional Via Dolorosa route and at each station, after the Scripture reading and prayer, two children released a pair of doves, a visible sign of the prayer for peace and freedom raised by the younger participants. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
Two children hold doves, which they released moments later, during the Way of the Cross for Christian school students in Jerusalem held on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. The first eight stations took place along the traditional Via Dolorosa route and at each station, after the Scripture reading and prayer, two children released a pair of doves, a visible sign of the prayer for peace and freedom raised by the younger participants. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
Pilgrims observe a moment of recollection and prayer on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem in front of the third and fourth stations during the Way of the Cross for Christian school students in Jerusalem held on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
A dove takes flight immediately after being released in front of the fourth station of the Way of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem during the Way of the Cross for Christian school students in Jerusalem held on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. At each station, two children released a pair of doves, a visible sign of the prayer for peace. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
The cross stops at the fifth station of the Via Dolorosa during the Way of the Cross for Christian school students in Jerusalem held on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. Here we are reminded of the episode of Simon of Cyrene, who is taken to help Jesus carry the cross. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
The vandalized statue of Jesus in one of the churches within the Flagellation complex on Feb. 2, 2023. The head, crowned with thorns, is badly damaged. The assailant, a Jewish extremist, managed to hit the statue with a hammer before being stopped. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
A vandalized statue of Jesus in one of the churches within the Flagellation complex on Feb. 2, 2023. The statue has never been restored and has become a symbol of the suffering Jesus. Like the previous year, the 2024 Way of the Cross for children and youth from Christian schools in Jerusalem began around this statue on Feb. 23, 2024. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
A vandalized statue of Jesus in one of the churches within the Flagellation complex on Feb. 2, 2023. Jesus’ hands were partly damaged. They are bound, as the statue represents the moment when he appears before Pilate to be condemned. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
A group of children from the Terra Sancta School in Jerusalem await the start of the Stations of the Cross held on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
Pilgrims stop in front of the sixth station of the Via Dolorosa during the Way of the Cross for Christian school students in Jerusalem held on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. The episode of Veronica wiping Jesus’ face is recalled here. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
Two doves take flight immediately after being released in front of the sixth station of the Way of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem during the Way of the Cross for Christian school students in Jerusalem held on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. At each station, two children released a pair of doves, a visible sign of the prayer for peace. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
A small crowd of students and professors from Christian schools in Jerusalem take part in the Way of the Cross organized by the Custody of the Holy Land on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. The crowd is walking in the street leading to St Savior’s Church after the eighth station of the Via Dolorosa. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
The Way of the Cross for Christian school students in Jerusalem held on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, arrives in the Franciscan Church of St. Savior. Stations 9 through 14 took place in the church. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
At the end of the Way of the Cross for Christian school students in Jerusalem, held on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, the custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, delivers a brief meditation on the gift of Jesus, who gave his life for all humanity — even for those who persecuted him. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
A small crowd of students and professors from Christian schools in Jerusalem gather inside the Franciscan Church of St. Savior, where the last stations of the Way of the Cross organized by the Custody of the Holy Land on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, take place. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
Pilgrims gather at the end of the Way of the Cross for the students and teachers of the Christian schools in Jerusalem organized by the Custody of the Holy Land on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. The apostolic delegate to Jerusalem, Father Adolfo Tito Yllana, bestows the final blessing with a relic of the holy cross. | Credit: Marinella Bandini
