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CONTACT:   Nanci Martin
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   nmartin@catholicrelief.org

   David Snyder
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   dsnyder@catholicrelief.org

INTERFAITH HUNGER APPEAL
Catholic Relief Services / Church World Service 
(NCCCUSA) / Lutheran World Relief / 
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 
(JDC)

Media Advisory

U.S. Religious Leaders Return from Famine-Struck 
North Korea
Press Conference to be held at National Press Club, 
Washington DC, at 1 p.m., Tuesday, November 11

 A high-level delegation representing members of 
the Interfaith Hunger Appeal (IHA): Catholic Relief 
Services, Church World Service, Lutheran World 
Relief and The American Jewish Joint Distribution 
Committee (JDC), is returning from famine-stuck 
North Korea. 

 They will talk of their visit and their 
findings at a Press Conference to be held in the 
Lisagor Room at National Press Club, Washington DC, 
at 1 p.m., Tuesday, November 11. 

 The IHA delegation includes: Most Rev. John H. 
Ricard, Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee and 
President of the Board of Directors of Catholic 
Relief Services; Rabbi Alexander Schindler, 
Immediate Past President of the Union of American 
Hebrew Congregations, representing The American 
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Bishop Howard 
Ernest Wennes, Bishop of Grand Canyon Synod, 
representing Lutheran World Relief; and Victor Hsu, 
Director, East Asia and the Pacific Program, Church 
World Service.

 The Interfaith Hunger Appeal is a partnership 
of peoples and agencies rooted in faith, working to 
promote the reconciliation of all peoples of the 
earth and freedom from hunger around the world.

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