The Latin Patriarchate schools in Jordan have over the years contributed enormously to promoting the standard of education in Jordan. Thousands of students who have graduated from these schools have pursued higher education and excelled by holding key positions either at the governmental or professional levels, which enriched the Jordanian society with batches of people who are qualified enough to pursue the procession of development and progress in Jordan.

Press reports have indicated that one of Jordan's Latin Patriarchate students, namely Ahmad Fayez Al Ja'alin has excelled in the Jordan Secondary Education Examination (the Tawjihi) 2021 by scoring the highest average and ranking the first in the Kingdom with 99.75 per cent in the scientific stream.

To mark this remarkable achievement, on Saturday, August 21, General Director of Latin Patriarchate Schools in Jordan Fr. Wissam Mansour visited the house of the student accompanied by parish priest Fr. Firas Nasraween and school director Firas Shweihat and number of school teachers.

During the visit, Fr. Mansour conveyed well wishes to the student and to his family as well as wished him further success in his studies. He also forwarded a congratulatory message addressed by Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa in which he noted that the academic achievement of student Ahmad Al Ja'alin is indicative of the love expressed by the family and the school as well as by the wonderful efforts he exerted in his studies.

It is worthy to note that the schools of the Latin Patriarchate were created when the Patriarchate was re-established in 1847. The patriarch at the time, His Beatitude Joseph Valerga, saw it as a way to reach Christian families in different towns and villages. Even today, by participating in the education and school education of children, the Latin Church is present daily in the Christian communities formed by families.

The Latin Patriarchate now has 43 schools spread across Jordan, and the Holy Land. In these institutions, every effort is made to ensure that students develop in a healthy environment and receive quality education. Education is a diocesan priority because good training is a source of hope for younger generations and their families. For this, the Latin Patriarchate is committed to providing it to all children, from kindergarten to high school.

Although fee-paying, these schools are accessible to everyone regardless of families’ income. Thus, the poorest families are exempt from tuition fees. This access to education for all would not be possible without the donations and the major financial support of the Knights of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher.

The Latin Patriarchate schools employ about 1,800 teachers, administrators, and educators aas well as provide education to more than 19,000 children.

Convinced that the environment in which children between the ages of three and five years live is decisive in the development of their learning capacity and their character, the Latin Patriarchate schools general directorate has opened establishments that cater to the youngest, kindergartens. Primary and secondary schools then lead students to the equivalent of the Baccalaureate, Tawjihi. Consequently, children are accompanied from a very young age to the beginning of adulthood.

Apart from functioning al the domestic level, the Latin Patriarchate Schools in Jordan, has earlier signed 12 cooperation agreements in education with Caritas Jordan aimed at benefiting Syrian refugee students. The agreement was designed to help serve 3,000-4,000 Syrian refugees that attended 12 Latin Patriarchate Schools in eight governorates in Jordan, namely Amman, Zarqa, Madaba, Karak, Ajloun, Mafraq, Irbid and Balqa.

The Catholic Center for Studies and Media (CCSM) in Jordan congratulates student Ahmad Al Ja'alin on his remarkable achievement. The CCSM also conveys well wishes to all those in charge of running the Latin Patriarchate schools in Jordan, such schools that have all the time served as a bright beacon of education which lights the skies of Jordan.