For more than 25 years, Ronny Levy Musan has worked at the intersection of faith, people, and the Holy Land.
Meeting Pope Benedict XVI in Washington, D.C., during his visit to the United States in 2008.
His journey began with a simple conviction: the connection between Christians around the world and the Holy Land should be more than something remembered, visited, or prayed for from afar.
It should be lived.
Over the years, he has initiated and led projects in close cooperation with churches, Christian institutions, and church leaders across denominations and across continents, working to strengthen the connection between Christian believers and the land where their faith began.
His work has brought him into conversations with church leaders, communities, media organizations, and people whose influence reaches far beyond the Holy Land.
But behind the meetings, projects, and institutions is one consistent purpose:
to turn connection into action, and faith into partnership.
At the opening ceremony of the Commemoration Hall at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, together with Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa.
Ronny’s public and international work began in 1999, through a series of Catholic and Protestant initiatives in Israel and the United States developed in preparation for the Jubilee Year 2000.
What began as a personal initiative became a long-term commitment.
The work brought him into close contact with Christian communities, churches, and institutions, and opened a path that would continue for more than two decades.
At its heart was a question that would remain central to everything that followed:
How can the Christian world remain meaningfully connected to the places and people at the heart of its faith?
The answer could not be found in symbolism alone.It required relationships.
It required presence.
And, ultimately, it required action.
During a meeting with Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, together with a delegation from Africa.
Over the years, Ronny worked with Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and other Christian communities, building relationships across traditions that do not always meet in the same places.
His work included church leaders and institutions in Israel, the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, and other parts of the world.
The objective was not to create another organization.
It was to bring people together around something they already shared:
a connection to the Holy Land, and a responsibility toward the Christian communities that continue to live there.
These relationships became a network of trust built over years, through meetings, visits, projects, conversations, and shared initiatives.
For Ronny, the relationship itself was never the end.
It was the beginning of what could be done together.
During a visit to Daystar Television Network in Dallas, as part of receiving a donation intended to support Christian families in Israel.
A central part of Ronny’s work has been bringing the reality of Christian life in the Holy Land to the attention of believers far beyond the region.
Through media appearances, church events, international meetings, and personal relationships, he spoke about the challenges facing local Christian communities and encouraged practical support.
The goal was always to move the conversation beyond awareness.
Because knowing that a community is struggling is only the first step.
The more important question is what happens next.
Over the years, this approach led to initiatives that connected churches and Christian organizations abroad with practical projects supporting Christian families in the Holy Land.
Faith became a reason to engage.
Awareness became a reason to act.
During a television interview on EWTN, together with Father Peter Vasko, President of the Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land.
The work also took Ronny into the world of Christian media.
He appeared on television programs and spoke with Christian audiences in the United States and elsewhere, using these platforms to bring attention to the Christian presence in the Holy Land and the challenges facing local communities.
From EWTN and Daystar to other Christian media networks, the message remained consistent:
The Holy Land is not only a place of biblical history.
It is home.
Home to families, churches, traditions, and communities that continue to live their faith on the same ground where Christianity began.
For Ronny, keeping that reality visible is part of keeping the connection alive.
With Father Rami Asakrieh, a senior representative of the Christian community in Bethlehem, and the Greek Metropolitan of Bethlehem.
For Ronny, the Holy Land has never been only about places.
It is about the people who live alongside them.
The families who have remained here.
The churches that continue to open their doors.
The clergy who serve their communities.
The artisans whose work carries generations of tradition forward.
Over the years, his relationships with local church leaders became an important part of his understanding of what the Christian presence in the Holy Land truly means.
A living heritage cannot survive as history alone.
It needs people.
And those people need a connection with the wider Christian world.
With Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa in Jerusalem, receiving his blessing for the establishment of a Holy Land Center in Africa.
Some of the initiatives Ronny became involved in were built around a simple idea: bringing the Holy Land closer to Christian communities that could not always come here themselves.
One example was the development of a Holy Land Center in Africa, pursued in connection with Christian leaders and with the blessing of Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa.
The principle was simple.
If the Holy Land is a spiritual home for Christians around the world, then the relationship should not depend entirely on geography.
It can travel.
Through people.
Through partnerships.
Through stories.
Through meaningful encounters with the land and its heritage.
Presenting Pope Francis with a commemorative plaque bearing his name, inside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, 2014.
Over more than two decades, Ronny’s work has taken him into rooms and conversations across the Christian world.
Church leaders.
Cardinals and bishops.
Pastors and Christian organizations.
Media networks.
Community leaders.
People working to build stronger connections with the Holy Land.
Some encounters were formal. Others were deeply personal.
But each relationship added another connection between the Holy Land and the wider Christian world.
In 2014, inside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Ronny presented Pope Francis with a commemorative plaque bearing his name.
It was one moment in a much longer journey. A journey built, above all, through relationships.
Praying for the Peace of Jerusalem with Pastor Benny Hinn, during his television program filmed in Jerusalem.
Behind the projects and relationships is an idea that has remained remarkably consistent.
A Christian’s relationship with the Holy Land should not end with a visit.
And it should not remain distant, symbolic, or nostalgic.
It can become a living relationship.
A relationship with the places where the story began.
A relationship with the people who continue to live it.
A relationship expressed through prayer, presence, partnership, and practical support.
This is the idea that has guided Ronny’s work for more than two decades.
And it is the idea that eventually led to Melior Mundus.
Presenting a commemorative plaque at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to the leadership of RCCG in Nigeria.
Melior Mundus is not separate from the journey that came before it.
It is its continuation.
The same belief that brought Ronny into contact with churches and communities around the world now shapes the company’s work with Christian families in the Holy Land.
The same conviction that awareness should lead to action now informs the way Melior Mundus creates, connects, and gives back.
And the same relationship with the Holy Land remains at the center.
The difference is that today, the connection can travel much further.
From a workshop in Bethlehem to a home thousands of miles away.
From a local Christian family to a believer on another continent.
From an ancient place to a personal relationship.
This is what Melior Mundus was created to make possible.
Carrying the commemorative plaque prepared for the Pope, together with a Vatican representative in Bethlehem.
Behind the projects and relationships is an idea that has remained remarkably consistent.
A Christian’s relationship with the Holy Land should not end with a visit.
And it should not remain distant, symbolic, or nostalgic.
It can become a living relationship.
A relationship with the places where the story began.
A relationship with the people who continue to live it.
A relationship expressed through prayer, presence, partnership, and practical support.
This is the idea that has guided Ronny’s work for more than two decades.
And it is the idea that eventually led to Melior Mundus.
Jerusalem. Where the story continues.
For more than 25 years, Ronny Levy Musan has worked to bring the Christian world closer to the Holy Land.
Not only to its sacred places.
But to its people.
That work continues through Melior Mundus.
Because the story of the Holy Land is not only a story of the past.
It is still being lived.
And those who care about it can still have a part in what comes next.
The connection begins here.
