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between Jerusalem and Ephesus

Five students from the catering school in Jerusalem, a week in the kitchen in Reggio Calabria: dough, proving, fish, pizza. The first of the three delegations of Estate Terra Santa.

In Jerusalem the Collège des Frères trains the young people who will work in kitchens and dining rooms. In the Holy Land that choice carries weight: hospitality is one of the few sectors still hiring those who stay.

Five of them, with their teacher Fadi Deeb, spent a week inside the "Sapori d'Italia" workshop: dough and proving, street food, preparing fish, pizza, almond paste. APAR provided the premises and the professional trainers; chefs from the Associazione Provinciale Reggini Chef took part in some of the sessions.

Between one shift and the next, the city: the Museo Archeologico Nazionale with the Riace Bronzes, and the Museo del Bergamotto. It is not padding in the programme — it is the half that turns a work placement into an experience.

Nine boys from the football school in Sebastia, in the West Bank, with three adults: two weeks at the Villaggio dei Giovani, training, and a Partita del Cuore open to the city.

Sebastia is a West Bank village of a few thousand people. Its football school is one of the few places where boys can be boys: train, argue about a foul, go home tired.

Nine of them — Amen, Yousef, Zaid, Yahya, Ahmad, Nawar, Aseel, Mohammed and Yamen — stayed at the Villaggio dei Giovani for thirteen days, with three adults. Training morning and afternoon, led by Roberto Breda with Giovanni Saffioti and former Reggina players: Simone Giacchetta, Antonino Barillà, Karim Laribi, Daniel Adejo.

On 17 July, on the pitches in Viale Messina, the Partita del Cuore against boys their own age from Reggio, open to the city. Around it: the Museo Archeologico, the PalaCalafiore, the "Rocco Polimeni" tennis club, the sea. And the Masses celebrated by don Valerio Chiovaro, for those who wanted to be there.

Sport here is not the point, it is the common language. On a pitch nothing needs translating: two teams facing each other have already solved the problem of how to be together.

Fourteen young people from the Latin parish of Jerusalem — the church of San Salvatore — with a priest and two adults: formation, service and an exchange with young people their own age in Reggio.

The third and last delegation of Estate Terra Santa 2026 came from the Latin parish of Jerusalem, the church of San Salvatore: fourteen young people with a priest and two adults.

Five days at the Villaggio dei Giovani given to formation, service and time spent with young people their own age from Reggio. Less spectacular than a match, and perhaps for that reason the closest thing to what Casa Kerigma tries to do all year round: put two groups into the same day and let them get to know each other.