Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal has urged western Church leaders to help to preserve “the Christian presence in Jerusalem in particular and in the Holy Land in general”.
The Pope has sent an envoy to Haiti with £800,000 ($1.2million, €900,000) in aid money on the first anniversary of the earthquake.
Morning Catholic must-reads: 11/01/11
A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
By Luke Coppen on Tuesday, 11 January 2011
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Cardinal Robert Sarah, Catholic World Report, Christina Lewis, condoms, Fouad Twal, Fr Federico Lombardi, Fr John Zuhlsdorf, Haiti, Holy See, Jeff Anderson, John Allen, Latin Patriarch, National Catholic Reporter, Sandro Magister, state of the world address, Sudan, VietnamShare
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