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Sergio Vieira de Mello: Resting place in Geneva

With the tragedy that continues in Iraq, the fourth anniversary of the attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad falls on 19 August 2007. It is a time to remember the brutal and unwarranted death of colleagues including one of the UN’s charismatic ambassadors of all time. News of an explosion that hit the United Nations building in Baghdad on 19 August 2003 provoked stunned shock around the world. The deaths of UN and other personnel evoked outpouring…

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Cardinal Lustiger: Judaism to Catholicism

A Jewish convert to Catholicism who rose to become Archbishop of Paris and a close ally of Pope John-Paul II, Cardinal Lustiger(1926-2007) died aged eighty. He was the only Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism to become a French bishop in modern times. He summarised his own life by saying that he had been “a cardinal, a Jew and the son of an immigrant”. Judaism to Catholicism Born Aaron Lustiger in Paris on 17 September 1926, he was the eldest child…

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