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and the playing children are looked over by the wall and its watch towers. The convent is so close to the wall that it is a handy landing point for
Palestinians who are jumping over the wall. This makes the convent a place of disruption and it means that the children there get to see soldiers twice a
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in 2021 after being nominated by the Holy See. At the time she was working in
Bethany in a Comboni convent where the house was surrounded on three sides by the wall that separates Israel from its neighbours. The convent had been founded in 1966 and at one time was in Jordanian territory (In 2019 the
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was taking place and the convent became unreachable by half of the people they care for. The convent is surrounded by blocks of concrete and barbed wire. Trees just disappeared as the wall came through their garden. The convent had run a kindergarten and for a time there was a small window in the
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wall so that parents could bring their children each day. The access door was blocked and the kindergarten lost most of its children as their parents needed to take two buses to bring and fetch their children. The playground has a fireproof roof to catch
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to administer help to sisters. Ten sisters died during the pandemic in a community of 55 elderly
Comboni nuns in Bergamo. Usually, she leads the Comboni Missionaries for the Middle East and Asia.
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Vacas was born in Spain in about 1972. She studied to be a registered nurse and she used these skills in Egypt where she was treating 150 Bedouin patients a day.
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on 8 March 2021. There were 14 awards. After the ceremony a "Virtual Watch Party" was scheduled hosted by the
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