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Alicia Venter is a staff writer for The Tablet, newspaper of the Diocese of Brooklyn.

Message of Peace Light, now in U.S., seen as more urgent amid Israel-Hamas war

December 4, 2023
By Alicia Venter
OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

As Catholics across the New York metropolitan area were given the opportunity to light their first candle of the Advent season the weekend of Dec. 2-3, a flame drawn from a source that dates back 1,000 years arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens.

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