The recipients of the 2015 Shining Stars Awards presented by Catholic Migration Services are:
Ghanaian Ministry
Kwasi Owusu-Afriyie
St. Catherine of Genoa parish, Flatbush
Mexican Ministry
Deacon Filipe Almendarez
Holy Name, Park Slope
Filipino Ministry
Alfredo and Leolybeth Altura
Nativity of Blessed Virgin Mary, Ozone Park
Lithuanian Ministry
Ramute Andruskeviciute -Hopaniene
Transfiguration, Maspeth
Brazilian Ministry
Marcelo Fava Borba
St. Rita, Long Island City
Irish Ministry
Sandra Boyle
Queen of Angels, Sunnyside
West Indian Ministry
Bernice Inez Brown
Our Lady of Victory Church, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn Chinese Ministry
BaoYu Chen
St. Agatha, Sunset Park
Pakistani Ministry
Sohal Gill
St. Rose of Lima, Parkville
Haitian Ministry
Myriam Gillis
St. Jerome, Flatbush
Nigerian Ministry
Ugochukwu C. Ikwuakor
Our Lady of the Snows, North Floral Park
Indian Latin Rite
Chinnamma Clement Kurisinkal
Our Lady of the Snows, North Floral Park
Queens Chinese Ministry
Thomas Zhiming Lu
St. John Vianney, Flushing
Korean Ministry
Young-Sook Lim
Holy Spirit, Borough Park
Italian Ministry
Gerardo Pinto
St. Mel’s, Flushing
Guatemalan Ministry
Deacon Jaime and Nineth Pinzon
St. Joan of Arc, Jackson Heights
Polish Ministry
Andrzej Popadiuk (Posthumous)
St. Frances de Chantal, Borough Park
Puerto Rican Ministry
Isabel M. Reyes
St. Michael’s, Sunset Park
Dominican Republic Ministry
Belarmino Rodriguez
St. Fidelis, College Point
Colombian Ministry
Felipe and Liliana Russi
St. Joan of Arc, Jackson Heights
Indonesian Ministry
Frans and Maria Samosir
St. Mark’s, Sheepshead Bay
Czech-Slovak Ministry
Bozena Smrckova
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Astoria
Vietnamese Ministry
Father Joseph Tan Tri Pham
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Astoria
Croatian Ministry
Tonica Tehomilic
Most Precious Blood, Astoria
African-American Ministry
Marilyn A. Towns-Jones
Our Lady of Light parish, St. Albans
Ecuadorian Ministry
Marco Zumba
St. John the Evangelist-St. Rocco, Sunset Park
(Photos by Ed Wilkinson)
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