Diocesan News

Shining Stars Honored by Migration Office

Thirty-three people from the various ethnic ministries in Brooklyn and Queens were honored by the Diocesan Migration Services at its annual Shining Stars Dinners held Oct. 6 and 13 at Gargiulo’s in Coney Island.

 

 

Those honored were:

  • Ecuadorian: Fredy Cubillos and Blanca Amendona
  • Pakistani – Ghazala Arif
  • Gariofuna – Arnaldo Arzu
  • Filipino – Ramil and Jane Marie Buenaventura
  • Haitian – Patricia Brintle
  • West Indian – Lennox Calder
  • Guatemalan – Deacon Jorge and Alma Castillo
  • Panamanian – Amelia S. Castro
  • El Salvador – Mr. and Mrs. Joksael Armando and Rosa Fuentes
  • Lithuanian – Anatolijus Garbauskas
  • Ukrainian – Sergiy Kondratenko
  • Mexican – Miguel Angel Garcia
  • Vietnamese – Quang Xuan Hoang
  • Polish – Iwona Drag Korga
  • Croatian – Dalibor Kostan
  • Indonesian – Martha Ku
  • African-American – Angela Spivey Lewis
  • Colombian – Martha Mendez
  • Ghanaian – Agnes Mills
  • Brazilian – Silas Freire de Oliveira
  • Czech/Slovak – Helen Otypka
  • Korean – Kihyo (Peter) Park
  • Indian Latin Rite – Dr. Celine Paulus
  • Russian-speaking – Halnia Pilchiuk
  • Italian – Jennie Rizzo
  • Chinese (Queens) – Peter (Shiang) Tien
  • Chinese (Brooklyn) – Yuen Ti Tse-Chiu
  • Nigerian – Deacon Dr. Okafor Uzoigwe

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