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His Excellency, Archbishop Noel Treanor will be laid to rest today in the Chapel of the Resurrection, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Belfast. Archbishop Noel was the Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union and lived in Brussels, where he died suddenly last week.

Prior to becoming Nuncio he was Bishop of Down and Connor and we Columban Sisters were honoured that he spent time with us in our ministries in Sindh, Pakistan when he came with other Bishops from Ireland, as guests of Trocaire. Here he experienced the reality of the Pakistani Church immersed in a 98% Muslim society and how we live out our mission of dialogue in such a situation as shown in these pictures.

It was a memorable occasion and these pictures show the Bishops being welcomed in Pakistani style with Christian children in an education centre run by the Columban Sisters and the other of Archbishop Treanor sharing the Gospel message in a Muslim setting.

May he rest in peace.