✝️HOLY LAND COORDINATION 2026

🛩️Justice & Peace Scotland is preparing to travel to the Holy Land tomorrow as part of the Holy Land Coordination 2026. Archbishop Nolan, our President, and Anne-Marie Clements, our Catholic Social Teaching Engagement Officer, will join bishops from across Europe and North America in Jerusalem for the annual gathering.

📸The photos shared here from last year’s visit capture some of the people we met and the places we encountered.

🙏The work of the Holy Land Coordination is rooted in four interrelated pillars: Presence, Prayer, Pilgrimage, and Pressure. Through these, the bishops seek to stand in solidarity with local Christians, to pray with them, to encourage pilgrimages that sustain their communities, and to advocate for dignity and equal rights for all people in the region.

🕊️The theme for the 2026 visit is “A Land of Promise: Encounter and Dialogue with People of Hope.” Throughout the week, the programme will focus on meeting people living in Palestine and Israel and listening closely to their lived realities.
Our visit will include time with Christian communities in Israel and the West Bank, as well as meetings with church leaders, interfaith organisations, and peace advocacy groups.

📝As we did in 2025, we will be sharing reflections and updates through our “Journals from Jerusalem” series. We look forward to sharing these stories of hope, as they are told first-hand, over the coming week. Please keep an eye out for updates and photographs.