Our World

news item 01 Jan 1992 – Palestinian-born Patriarch Michel Sabbah, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, visited the United States in October. Read more...


news item 01 Jan 1992 – Our Pontifical Mission’s Beirut office is sponsoring a $4.5 million grant program over a three-year period to rebuild more than 30 villages destroyed during the nations 16-year-old civil war. Read more...


news item 01 Jan 1992 – His Holiness Alexei II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, visited the United States in November. Read more...


news item 01 Jan 1992 – Metropolitan Bartholomeos of Chalcedon, a 51-vear-old veteran of international religious affairs and chief advisor for his predecessor, Dimitrios I, was elected ecumenical patriarch. Read more...


news item 01 Jan 1992 – Major Catholic Near East benefactors from the New York metropolitan area were treated to a Middle Eastern luncheon on Nov. 14. Read more...


news item 01 Jan 1992 – Sister Kathryn Callahan, C.S.C., has been named director of the Pontifical Mission’s Amman office after serving as the Association’s director of program services for the last two years. Read more...


news item 01 Jan 1992 – John Cardinal O’Connor traveled to the Middle East in early January in his capacity as president of Catholic Near East Welfare’ Association. Read more...