Crohn's disease
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Crohn's disease Chronic inflammatory disease of the bowel, of unknown origin, treated with antibiotics to prevent infection and with anti‐inflammatory agents. Sufferers may be malnourished as a result of both loss of appetite due to illness and also malabsorption. Also known as regional enteritis, since only some regions of the gut are affected. See also
gastro‐intestinal tract.
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Translation Techniques in Two Syro-Arabic Versions of Ruth.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...centuries; the other was written in Melchite circles in Damascus and preserved in...an idiomatic translation, while the Melchite one is of the literal kind, adhering...the idiomatic "Coptic" version; the Melchite version, following closely the Peshitta...
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World digest.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 3/2/2001; 594 words
; ...leader's home. Associated Press No brotherly love lost Six Melchite monks, one of whom held an icon from a window of a chapel...ordered the property returned to the Order of St. Francis. The Melchites, an order of Greek Catholics loyal to Rome, say they are...
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A more subdued Christmas being held this year in Bethlehem
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 12/5/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...other appointments, Greek Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem Lutfi Laham has been elected Melchite Patriarch of Antioch, the highest position in the Melchite Church, and is to be known as Gregory III. Laham, whose seat is to be in Damascus...
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Using Christ's language Syrian village preserves Aramaic
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/23/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...tribe of Nabateans visible in the foundation stone. Father Freijat, a scholar of the Melchites, or Arab Christians, who has written three books on Melchite manuscripts, recited the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic for inquiring visitors, including...
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Many brands on offer, some of them poisonous
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 10/28/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...writing in French, with Arabic as mother-- tongue, a Turkish grandmother and Egyptian Maronite grandfather, himself a Melchite Christian educated by Jesuits, with early devotion to Swift, Dickens, Dumas. He examines the fruitful balances and destructive...
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SYRIAN AMBASSADOR HONOURED AT CHAMBER OF ALDERMEN IN RIO
Newspaper article from: Info-Prod Research (Middle East); 4/19/2007; 554 words
; ...honorary consul in the city of Belo Horizonte (SE); Monsignor Alphonse Nagib Sabbagh, parish priest of the Greek Catholic Melchite Church of S?o Bas?lio; Archimandrite Ignatios Lutfi, Antiochian Orthodox Patriarchal Delegate in Rio; Thereza Richa...
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Synod for Asia: Asian bishops, Vatican differ on key church issues.(includes related article on the economic crisis in Asia)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 4/10/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...patriarch has jurisdiction over all bishops, clergy and people in a territory or in a-specified rite (such as the Roman, Melchite or Syrian rite). The division of the church into patriarchates goes back to the beginnings of Christianity. The Council...
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A L'OMBRE D'UN ORMEAU
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 9/1/2008; ; 574 words
; ...booklet shows neither church nor cathedral due to the angle of view.) Built in the 12th century, it was turned over to the Melchite Catholics over 100 years ago and an iconostasis was erected before the altar, but it is better known for frequent, almost...
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Seeking insight from Muslim/Christian history.(NATION/WORLD)(Interview)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 11/3/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...and Islam is wrong. This grab bag of colorful ecclesiastical characters includes John Damascene, Theodore Abu Qurrah (a Melchite bishop in the ninth century who wrote treatises against the Muslims in Arabic), Peter the Venerable, Raymond Martini, Raymond...
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Bishop opposed by Israel arrives here today
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 10/15/1998; ; 356 words
; ...Jerusalem today, with aides predicting that he will be an outspoken critic of the government. Bishop Butrous Mualem, the Melchite archbishop of Brazil, will spend two days in Jerusalem before he travels to Haifa on Saturday to become the new bishop of...
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Melchites
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Melchites or Melkites , members of a Christian community...lives in Damascus or Egypt. The name Melchites (which derives from the Syriac word for...Maronites and the Syrian Catholics, the Melchite community has its own hierarchy under...
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Copts
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...curtailed. Two parallel lines of developement ensued: one, Melchite and Byzantine, accepted the doctrines of the Council of Chalcedon...who had to move from monastery to monastery to avoid pursuing Melchite legionnaires. Excessive taxation, humiliation, and torture...
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Maronites
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in Lebanon and Syria. Besides the Maronites there are two other groups in Syria in communion with the pope—the Melchites and the Syrian Catholics. Bibliography: See D. Attwater, The Christian Churches of the East, Vol. I (1947).
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Uniat
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...of the Antiochene rite; the Armenians ; the Chaldeans rite; the *Copts and Ethiopians , of the Alexandrian rite; and of the Byzantine rite, the Ukrainians, Hungarians, Romanians, Melchites , and some Bulgars, Serbs, and Greeks.
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Roman Catholic Church
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...rite also of the Orthodox Eastern Church , which is not in communion with Rome), to which belong many groups, including Melchites , Ruthenians, Romanians, and the Italo-Albanians of S Italy; the Antiochene (also the rite of the autonomous Jacobite...
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