n Nuuk, Greenland's capital, a Catholic community of about 300 people is following renewed international debate over the island's future with a mix of concern, detachment and quiet attention. As global headlines once again frame Greenland in strategic terms, local Catholics — many of them Filipino immigrants — are processing the debate at a distance.
"When Greenland suddenly appears again in global headlines, people feel exposed," said Franciscan Conventual Fr. Tomaž Majcen, pastor of Christ the King Parish in Nuuk and the only Catholic priest responsible for pastoral care in Greenland.
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