Pope appoints new Occupied Jerusalem Latin Patriarch
June 21, 2008, 17:37
Vatican City:
Pope Benedict on Saturday appointed Archbishop Fouad Twal as Latin Patriarch of Occupied Jerusalem. The appointment makes 67-year-old Twal the Roman Catholic church's top Latin rite cleric for Palestinian territories and Israel. Twal replaces 75-year-old Archbishop Michel Sabbah, who resigned after holding the post since 1987. The Jordanian-born Twal served as deputy parish priest in Ramallah in the 1960s before landing a diplomatic career for the Vatican.
Hundreds of small earthquakes detected at Mount Rainier — a Cascadia
Subduction Zone risk?
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Mount Rainier (Photo by Caleb Riston via Wikipedia) COGwriter Mount Rainier
has had a major increase in the amount of earthquakes detected there:
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