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03 Jun 2011 – Pope Benedict met separately with Vice President Joseph Biden and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Read more...
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03 Jun 2011 – Pope Benedict XVI
met with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden in an
unannounced visit June 3. Read more...
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31 May 2011 – Archbishop
George Alencherry, the new major archbishop of the
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, said his priorities would
be “evangelization, greater unity and communion with
other churches.” Read more...
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26 May 2011 – The Vatican officials
in charge of dialogue with Muslims met with Egypt’s
foreign minister and expressed the Catholic Church’s
readiness to continue dialogue with scholars from Egypt’s
premier Muslim institution, the Vatican said. Read more...
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26 May 2011 – U.S. President Barack
Obama’s call for Israeli and Palestinian states based on
Israel’s 1967 borders met with a largely wary response
from Palestinian Christians. Read more...
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26 May 2011 – U.S. President Barack
Obama's two recent speeches on the Mideast showed
“some progress,” but they were “not sufficient,” said
Bishop William Shomali, chancellor of the Latin
Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Read more...
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26 May 2011 – In Jifna, a priest tries to overcome wounds left by two Palestinian uprisings. Read more...
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26 May 2011 – Pope Benedict XVI
confirmed the election of the new head of India’s Syro–Malabar Catholic Church. Read more...
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