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☆ Ancient monastery in war-ravaged Gaza placed on UNESCO’s danger list
  + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —An ancient Christian monastery in Gaza has been added to the List of World Heritage in Danger because of the ongoing conflict in the region. Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Monastery of St. Hilarion, known locally as Tell Umm Amer, was simultaneously added to the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, according to an announcement by UNESCO on its website on Friday. “This decision recognizes both the site’s value and the need to protect it from danger,” the organization explained online. The monastery was founded by St. Hilarion and was home to the first monastic community in the Holy Land, according to UNESCO. UNESCO stated: “In view of the threats to this heritage site posed by the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip, the World Heritage Committee used the emergency inscription procedure provided for in the World Heritage Convention.
Persons: Mohammed Abed, Hilarion, Umm Amer Organizations: CNN, UNESCO World Heritage Committee, Getty, UNESCO, Fund, St, Monuments Fund, World Heritage, Heritage Convention, Convention, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Locations: Gaza, New Delhi, AFP, St, Danger, Gaza City, Africa, Asia
☆ Here are the origins of the oldest public library in the Americas
  + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
PUEBLA, Mexico — It is, according to UNESCO, the oldest public library in the Americas, tucked away from the street front at a cultural center in the historic heart of this Mexican city. “Everything that was imagined at that time is in the library,” said Juan Fernández del Campo, the library’s current manager. Palafox’s passion for books is evident in a quote from him, written on a mosaic outside the library. This was not the time for Mexico to raise its wings toward freedom of thought,” the library manager said. The library reopened in 2002; two years later it was added by UNESCO to its Memory of the World Register.
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