Diocesan News

The Stars Were Out at Catholic Migration Dinner

Attendees at the annual Shining Star Dinners sponsored by Catholic Migration Services came from all over the world as the diocese honored some of the most active Catholic immigrants in Brooklyn and Queens. Honorees included: Abdelmalak and Nadia Abdo, Arabic-speaking Apostolate; Hilda Arias, Dominican; Ben Addision, Ghanaian; Rachel Maria Gibbs, West Indian; Miriam Busanic, Croatian; Father Jose Carlos da Silva, Brazilian; Carla Gaita, Italian; Father Byung Su Kim, Korean; Wai Yu (Grace) Lam, Chinese (Brooklyn); Jimmy and Maria Locsin, Filipino; Dr. Algirdas Lukosevicius, Lithuanian; Ginny Enwemaya Mampouya, Nigerian; Elizabeth McLoughin, Irish; Shafqat Naz, Pakistani; Paul D. Panakal, Indian Latin Rite; Martin Minh Pham, Vietnamese; Rosette Previl, Haitian; Clara Hidalgo Rodriguez, Puerto Rican; Elena Samek, Czech/Slovak; Adam and Malgorzata Skarzynski, Polish; Richard St.-Cyr, African-American; Annie Tam, Chinese (Queens); Lucas (Lucy) Perez Vivar, Mexican; Francisco Tzunun, Guatemalan; and Yohana Endang Wusanami, Indonesian.

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