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June 24, 2001
Updated Wed, Jul 4, 2001
AIDS and the lab that St. Sabina built
More than 100 people travel this red dirt road each day across
the hot, humid African savannah. When they arrive at the collection
of clay buildings with grass roofs that make up Shekhinah Clinic,
they know they are in good hands. "I performed the first operation
for my clinic under this mango tree," said Dr. David Abdulai,
pointing across the yard to the tree. The facilities hadn't yet
been built when someone needed emergency surgery. "When the patient
fully recovered, I knew God wanted me to do this," he said. That
is how, in 1989, Shekhinah Clinic began. Go to story
A passage from India:
Syro-Malabar Catholics bring Eastern tradition to the Midwest
On any given Sunday, more than 700 people—mostly natives of Kerala,
India, and their families— drive from across the Chicago area
to attend Mass at Mar Thomas Shleeha Church in Bellwood, the Syro-Malabar
Mission of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Starting July 1, they will
no longer be a mission church of the archdiocese. Cardinal Varkey
Vithayathil, major archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church,
will establish the new St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Diocese of Chicago
and consecrate Father Jacob Angadiath, director of Mar Thomas
Shleeha, as its bishop. Go to story
All the news that's fit to draw: Local artist covers everything from crime to church
Franklin McMahon may be one of the country's top artist/reporters,
but he always tries to keep things in perspective.
Like when he got the letter notifying him of his June 25 induction
(along with birdman John James Audubon) into the New York-based
Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. Go to story
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