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news item 24 Nov 2010 – From 10 to 24 October, Pope Benedict XVI convened in Rome a special assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East. Read more...


news item 24 Nov 2010 – CNEWA’s vice president for communications, Michael La Civita, led two immersion 
programs to the Middle East for media professionals in North America. Read more...


news item 24 Nov 2010 – 
CNEWA’s Canada office has launched anational campaign to assist Middle East Christians, focusing on those from Iraq. Read more...


news item 24 Nov 2010 – Ninety-eight-year old Cecilia Mazzoni has been a generous friend to CNEWA for most of her life. Read more...


news item 24 Nov 2010 – On 3 October, Thomas Mar Eusebius was installed as the first bishop of the newly established exarchate for Syro-Malankara Catholics in the United States. Read more...


news item 24 Nov 2010 – In October, the prefect of the Holy See’s Congregation for the Eastern Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, announced the pope’s appointment of Archbishop Alois Kothgasser of Salzburg, Austria, as general president of Catholica Unio, a movement for the union of the Catholic and Orthodox churches that began in Vienna in 1921. Read more...