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news item 01 Sep 1995 – Late in May, the story of a nine-year-old girl who swallowed a needle while trying on a new veil shocked Lebanon. Read more...


news item 01 Sep 1995 – On 30 May, Pope John Paul II issued a new call for Christian unity in his encyclical “Ut Unum Sint” (That All May Be One). Read more...


news item 01 Sep 1995 – On 19 June, Msgr. Robert L. Stern, Secretary General, was made an affiliated member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools at the congregation’s generalate in Rome. Read more...


news item 01 Sep 1995 – In July, Msgr. Stern led 25 priests from the Archdiocese of New York on a study-pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Read more...


news item 01 Sep 1995 – John Cardinal O’Connor, President of CNEWA, Mr. John C. Whitehead, former Deputy Secretary of State, and Brother David Carroll, F.S.C., Assistant to the Secretary General, addressed some 200 members of the Eastern Lieutenancy of the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre in a “Briefing on the Holy Land” in New York on 19 June. Read more...


news item 01 Sep 1995 – His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, made his first official visit to the Vatican as the spiritual head of the Orthodox Church on 27 June to pray and meet with Pope John Paul II. Read more...


news item 01 Sep 1995 – Pope John Paul II has raised to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese the former dioceses of Tellicherry and Trichur, bringing the number of Syro-Malabar archdioceses to four. Read more...


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