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13 Jul 2011 – CNEWA’s regional director for Palestine and Israel, Sami El-Yousef, reports that the number of faithful in the region has stabilized and may even be increasing. Read more...
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08 Jul 2011 – On 12 June, Turks elected the country’s first Christian deputy, Mr. Erol Dora, to the Ankara parliament (Meclis), literally making him Turkey’s “First Christian.” Read more...
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07 Jul 2011 – On 6 July, radio talk show hosts Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams of Boston’s The Good Catholic Life interviewed Gabriel Delmonaco, CNEWA’s vice president for development, about the agency’s projects, sponsorship programs and support for social service and religious institutions in the Middle East, Northeast Africa, India and Eastern Europe. Read more...
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01 Jul 2011 – Concluding a semiannual meeting on 24 June convened by the Holy See’s Congregation for the Eastern Churches, the pope made a strong appeal to those agencies supporting the churches of the East: Read more...
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30 Jun 2011 – OXFORD, England (CNS) — A Catholic bishop
from Romania will be beatified as a martyr almost six
decades after dying from being doused in boiling water in
a prison operated by his country’s former communist
regime. Read more...
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30 Jun 2011 – MISRATA, Libya (CNS) — Fifteen-year-old
Mohammed Majeed had grown so accustomed to the war
raging around him that he lost his fear of the ordnance
scattered on the ground in his neighborhood. One day in
April, he found a rifle grenade just outside his front door
and carried the projectile inside. The next day, as he
played with it, it exploded in his hand. Read more...
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29 Jun 2011 – BENGHAZI, Libya (CNS) — A Catholic nun
working in rebel-held eastern Libya says she and other
sisters have remained because of their commitment to the
people they serve. Read more...
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29 Jun 2011 – VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Israel’s ambassador to
the Vatican caused a controversy when he made unusually
positive comments about Pope Pius XII’s role in efforts to save Jews during World War II. Days later, he modified his position to say that his comments were personal and historically premature. Read more...
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