Birzeit Church

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Summer Camps for the year 2009 consists of 48 Leaders and 180 Students of different ages.

First Communion & Confirmation 2009 For 31 children from the catholic parish of Birzeit with Bishop Marcuzzo.

Our school kindergarten graduation party for 30 children (ages 5 years)under the patronage of prof. Hanna Issa the director of Christian issues at the palestinian ministery for religious affairs.

The graduation party for Tawjeehi class (34 persons) with his Beatitude Fouad Twal at the garden of the parish.

Easter Sunday Celebration with Patriarch Michel Sabbah and English group with fr. Paul Maddisson.

Holy Saturday Celebration in Birzeit: The Orthodox Scouts of Birzeit with priests of Birzeit (Orthodox, Catholics and Anglican) receives together the Holy Light from the Holy Sepulchre. Then the celebration of the Holy Saturday at the Catholic Church of Birzeit.

Good Friday Celebration at the Catholic Church of Birzeit: Fr. Peter Madros preside the celebration, Fr. Louis from Latroun Monastery for confessions and fr. Aziz Halaweh for the choir. At the celebration: Singing the Gospel of the Passion by 3 persons and the Choir - the adoration of the Cross, the symbolic procession with the statue of the dead Jesus.

Holy Thursday Celebration at the Catholic Church of Birzeit: Fr. Peter Madros preside the Mass, Fr. Louis from Latroun Monastery for confessions. Fr. Aziz Halaweh with the choir.

Celebration of Palm Sunday in Birzeit

Children of the parish of Birzeit at Palm Sunday 12-4-2009

God used Samuel Hagop Vosgueritchian, a former Jerusalemite Armenian to save this valuable Pieta Statue from utter destruction, his brother Aram Hagop and his family, from Jerusalem in protecting the Pieta for more than (six years), and Father Alex Kratz from Detroit, Michigan in finding a home for it at the Roman Catholic Church in Birzeit, Palestine, with Father Aziz Helewa, Parish Priest. Special recognition and gratitude are extended to the Palestinian Artist Mr. Majed Nakafouri who restored the Piet

Joseph George Kaileh, catholic young man from Birzeit was kidnaped by the Israeli army and put in prison for 4 years. Last Monday 15 Dec 2008 he is liberated, and he is now back home with his family.

A new organ for the Church was donated as a gift for the Jubilee 150 of our church by our sister church: the National Presbyterian Church of Washington (NPC) and friends from Como - Italy, the Gruppo Turismo Rebbiese (GTR). This organ was blessed during the Sunday Mass on 21 th Dec. 2008

Birzeit University Christmas Exposition 2008 and the visit of Orthodox bishop Arch. Atallah Hanna On Monday 15 Dec. 2008

Alrajaa Choir from Jerusalem in a Christmas concert at the Parish Theatre of Birzeit on 12 Dec 2008

Photos of the celebrations of the Jubilee 150 of the foundation of the Latin Church in Birzeit