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29 May 2003 – Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the
United Nations, paid his first visit on 11 April to the
New York office of Catholic Near East
Welfare Association (CNEWA) since assuming his position earlier this year.
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29 May 2003 – Twelve U.S. Catholic bishops attended a workshop on Islam and Catholic-Islam relations – the first of its kind.
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29 May 2003 – Joseph L. Sell of Higley, Arizona, traveled to Kottayam, India, for the profession of vows of Josephine Sister Alphonsa Leo, whom he had supported as a novice through CNEWA’s sponsorship program for religious sisters.
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29 May 2003 – The people of Ethiopia and Eritrea face imminent death by starvation, said Brother Vincent Pelletier, F.S.C., in a talk to students at Boston College.
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29 May 2003 – A grant from a CNEWA funding partner, the F.S.C. Foundation, has provided the Malankara Boys Home in Karammoodu, India, with a computer lab that is preparing the residents, ages 10 to 14 years, to move into the information technology age.
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29 May 2003 – As part of CNEWA’s ongoing program to provide Iraqi refugees with emergency relief, Franciscan Sister Wardeh Kayrouz has set up five distribution centers in Amman, the Jordanian capital, that have the heaviest concentration of Iraqis.
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