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22 Nov 2011 – On 20 October, the head of the world’s Maronite Catholics, Patriarch Bechara Peter Rai of Antioch, held a press conference at CNEWA’s administrative center in New York as part of his first pastoral visit to the United States since his election in Lebanon last March.
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22 Nov 2011 – A member of the CNEWA family, Brother Donald Mansir, F.S.C., died on 8 October in Walnut Creek, California, at the age of 62.
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22 Nov 2011 – On 21-22 October, CNEWA and the Sheptytsky Institute for Eastern Christian Studies at St. Paul University in Ottawa sponsored a symposium on the future of Christianity in
the Middle East.
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22 Nov 2011 – On 20 October, the head of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I, dedicated a new cathedral in Amman.
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22 Nov 2011 – In October, the Teresian Association, a religious and lay institute of men and women, celebrated its centennial anniversary. For decades, Teresians have run CNEWA’s Pontifical Mission libraries in Amman and Bethlehem. Sami El-Yousef, CNEWA’s regional director for Palestine and Israel, attended the celebrations in Jerusalem on 15 October.
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22 Nov 2011 – The head of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Major Archbishop George Alencherry of Ernakulam-Angamaly, visited CNEWA’s New York offices on 25 October as part of his first pastoral visit to the United States since his election in India in May. The 66-year-old major archbishop leads nearly four million Syro-Malabar Catholics around the world, including 75,000 in the United States.
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22 Nov 2011 – The Paul VI Ephpheta Institute, a school for hearing-impaired children in Bethlehem, celebrated its 40th anniversary on 22 October.
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