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Jerusalemweg opening Waldsassen (June 25, 2022):
Solemn opening of the JERUSALEM WAY OF THE MONASTERIES: Erection of the dove of peace and pilgrimage together! With an interreligious ceremony, this Jerusalem Way feeder was opened on Saturday, June 25, 2022 and the large dove of peace, handcrafted from stainless steel, was ceremoniously unveiled.
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Several religious leaders said prayers of blessing! For Judaism, Rabbi Dr. Dannyel Morag; for Islam, Imam Faouzi Slama; for the Anglican Church, Pastor Dr. Elisabeth Ring; for the Protestant Church, Ulrike Köhler. Afterwards, they all, along with patron MEP Monika Hohlmeier, Abbess M. Laetitia Fech, city pastor Dr. Thomas Vogl, First Mayor Bernd Sommer, District Administrator Roland Grillmeier and Jerusalem Way initiator Johannes Aschauer, unveiled the dove of peace together. In addition to numerous guests of honor, many pilgrims from Germany and abroad came to take part in the ceremony and the joint pilgrimage in the Stiftland. Thank you all very much! God bless you. Note: For the complete review see Newsletter 2022
Afterwards, a joint pilgrimage took place: Monday, June 27th to Friday, July 8th, 2022 from Waldsassen via Cham to Passau. See details
Media reports: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Upper Palatinate media / Bistum regensburg
Peace March from Linz to Vienna (250 KM) (07 - 17 April 2022)
The peace march was for Ukraine and world peace. Contact details see here
Opening of Jerusalem Way in Donauwörth! (September 18, 2021)
HISTORICAL MOMENT: Interreligious ceremony with representatives of the Turkish-Islamic, Romanian-Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic religions! And solemn Positioning of the 1st dove of peace in Germany! www.jerusalemweg.de
THANK YOU ALL
German policeman goes to Jerusalem for peace!
Hans Graßer, retired police commander and deacon from Bavaria left at Pentecost 2013 to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem! He is now the first to mark the path of peace with the JERUSALEM WAY sticker.
The three of us & the peace team founded by Johannes Aschauer in January 2013 will receive Johann at the film lecture in the Stiftskirche Göttweig and will accompany him to Vienna.
In Vienna for the first time the Jerusalemweg pilgrim pass including pilgrim's stamp will be issued whereby it is planned that Cardinal Schönborn personally this solemn act in St. Stephen's Cathedral will take over! A big, even epochal step and another bridge between the church and the international - connecting religions and peoples - JERUSALEM WAY peace project!
Finally, an appointment is planned in the UNO City, where hopefully every Jerusalem pilgrim will ring the peace bell there in the future and at the same time receive an official document that underlines the peaceful character of the Jerusalem Way.
Johann Graßer reached JERUSALEM on foot on November 30, 2013: Link to his Facebook page
International peace project for Syria!
Personalities from politics, religion, sport and society support the peace project founded by the “Jerusalem Way Team”! The two Upper Austrian police officers Johannes Aschauer and Otto Klär made a pilgrimage with the former downhill world champion David Zwilling in 2010 from Upper Austria to Jerusalem, where they arrived after 4.500 months. The long pilgrimage took them for a month through what was then peaceful Syria, where they visited cities like Damascus or Aleppo, which are today hard-fought and destroyed.
Now this trio has the support of numerous personalities like Cardinal Schönborn, Bishop Schwarz, Cathedral pastor Toni Faber, politicians, such as Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner, State Secretary Reinhold Lopatka, Governor Erwin Pröll, Governor Josef Pühringer, Governor Hans Niessl, Governor Wilfried Haslauer, EU MP Josef Weidenholzer, EU MEP Othmar Weidenholzer, EU MP like Franz Klammer, Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Hansi Hinterseer, Alexandra Meisnitzer etc. an international peace project started, which should point out the current situation in Syria. In this project, the entire international community is called upon to work together for peace in this region. The prelude to this is now a short peace video, which was made during her one-month trip through Syria.
The initiator Johannes Aschauer, his two pilgrim colleagues and the "Jerusalem Way Peace Team" they founded want this video with the peace message to be distributed worldwide in order to encourage as many people as possible to join this peace project. At the same time, further actions for peace in the region are to be carried out in the coming weeks and months.
On November 28, 2013, a peace march took place on the Jerusalem Way including route markings from Salzburg via Linz (Mariendom) and the Mauthausen concentration camp to Arbing. Arrival was on December 5, 2013 (total about 200 km). THANKS TO THE MANY PILGRIMS!
The climax of this peace project, as soon as the situation in Syria permits, will be a peace march with international participation from Damascus through Syria to the Holy Land in Jerusalem.
Here is an excerpt from the media reports: Kronen Zeitung / people's aid / Tips
Please support this peace project by forwarding this information to your contacts and sharing the video on the Internet, posting .. Peace concerns us ALL!
Audience with Pope Benedict XVI
David Zwilling, Otto Klär and Johannes Aschauer presented the book written by Johannes Aschauer during the papal general audience in Rome today, Wednesday 25 January 2012. "On the Jerusalem Way: From the Heart of Europe on Foot to Jerusalem" in the presence of Cardinal Schönborn to Pope Benedict XVI. handed over.
For the three pilgrims to Jerusalem, this is another very special and extraordinary highlight of their life and pilgrimage after their 6-month pilgrimage and their arrival in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve 4.500 after walking around 2010 km! Especially because their “international pilgrimage” followed in the footsteps of the Apostle Paul on the one hand and was under the cross-religious motto for JOY – PEACE – FREEDOM stand.
Jerusalemweg continues to draw circles and is developing into an international peace project!
Jerusalem pilgrims present the peace project JERUSALEM WAY to the European Parliament Presidency and the Austrian Ambassador in Brussels (March 31, 2013). Book presentation to Barbara Stöckl in the ORF regional studio in Klagenfurt (February 20, 2013). Initiation of the peace project "JERUSALEM WAY" that unites religions and peoples on DECEMBER 21, 2012 in Finisterra, the "end of the world" in Spain (December 23, 2012).
COLOMBIA: WORLD CONGRESS FOR MERCY AND PEACE
Bogotá: Around 2.000 participants from all over the world came to the congress. In the course of this, we were able to spread the key messages of the international peace project JERUSALEM WAY to all participants and met with great enthusiasm! Contacts were made, a basic network was established, perhaps a route through Jerusalem, from west to east, towards the sun. For peace in Colombia - in Jerusalem - in the world. Impressions of the pilgrimage:
Unique premiere - FILM in Vienna's STEPHANSDOM!
On Friday, October 5, 2012, the film presentation was presented on three large screens as part of a benefit event for "Club Innenministerium" - "Volkshilfe" - "Dompfarre Sankt Stephan".
About 2.000 visitors came to the fully occupied cathedral - an unforgettable and unique evening! We would like to thank YOU for coming in such large numbers, as well as Jaro Reisinger from Hikingdays and the many other helpers for their involvement in the organization! Thanks to YOU we were able to "write history" in St. Stephen's Cathedral!
Book presentation and press conference with Mr. Cardinal Schönborn and Mr. Professor Girtler
On Thursday October 27, 2011 at 11.00 am, the presentation of the book "On the Jerusalem Way - From the Heart of Europe to Jerusalem" and a 4-minute film clip from our pilgrimage took place in the Pressehaus Club 5, Stephansplatz, Vienna.
rush at the film premiere
Over 500 people came to Arbing in Upper Austria on November 24, 2011 so as not to miss the premiere of our film presentation.. :) GRATEFUL! The Jerusalem Way was founded here in 4341 Arbing on June 24, 2010, just over a year ago. So everything begins with the FIRST STEP...
Here the open vision
Here the Information about the Jerusalem Way Arbing and Pilgrim Hostel open (Stand 2025)
