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3 days ago · Good Samaritan Bishop of Bangladesh war dies. A bishop who served refugees during the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war as a missionary priest and later built up the Church in an underdeveloped Catholic diocese in a hilly northeastern Indian state, died on July 5. Jul 05, 2024. Bishop Emeritus George Mamalassery.
3 days ago · George Harrison [nb 1] MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) [nb 2] was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
2 days ago · Father George went to speak to his bishop about going up north. The problem was that it was illegal for any Christian, particularly a Catholic, to go into the region. Doing so was punishable by death.
3 days ago · But while surviving members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr opted to resurrect the demoed track – which was originally recorded by John Lennon in 1977 – one Beatle, George Harrison, wouldn’t have been bothered to release it, according to Giles Martin, son of the band’s producer George Martin.
2 days ago · The walls not only display the Stations of the Cross, but carry stained-glass windows high above. Father Dury found the windows of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts on a website, while those in the chapel’s walls were obtained from a closed convent in the diocese.
2 days ago · An Indian bishop who helped Bangladeshi refugees during the 1971 liberation war as a missionary priest dies on the 5 July, says Herald Malaysia. Retired Bishop George Mamalassery of Tura in Meghalaya state died at 92 at a Church-run hospital. The prelate was under medication since April this year after he developed breathing troubles.
4 days ago · The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War -related genocide and the 1970 Bhola cyclone.
