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news item 17 Sep 2009 – CNEWA is feeding families affected by acute malnutrition in Eritrea. While reliable statistics are unavailable, sources in the country indicate a significant portion of Eritrea’s 3.5 to 4.8 million people are undernourished, especially children, women of childbearing age and the elderly. Read more...


news item 17 Sep 2009 – How to serve better the needs of India’s dynamic Eastern churches, updates on CNEWA’s activities and ecumenical and priestly formation concerns were among the topics CNEWA’s secretary general, Msgr. Robert L. Stern, discussed in late August with the synods of the Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankara Catholic churches as well as with the head of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, Catholicos Mar Baselios Thomas I. Read more...


news item 17 Sep 2009 – On 1 September, Sami El-Yousef began his tenure with CNEWA and the Pontifical Mission as regional director for Palestine and Israel. Read more...


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news item 17 Sep 2009 – Patricia Molloy, who retired on 31 July after 30 years of service to the Vatican office of CNEWA and the Pontifical Mission for Palestine, received the prestigious Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross. Read more...


news item 17 Sep 2009 – CNEWA’s U.S. national secretary, Gabriel Delmonaco, led a group of benefactors and friends to Ethiopia in early August. Read more...