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Betty Dagher Majaj, the longtime director of the Princess Basma Center for Disabled Children in East Jerusalem, explains to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and her staff that the center’s hydrotherapy pool remains empty because the center cannot afford to keep it chlorinated and heated. From left, Alex Baumgarten, director of the Episcopal Church’s Office of Government Relations, the presiding bishop, Dr. Waddah Malhees, the center’s rehabilitation medical director, Majaj, and the Rev. Canon Bob Edmunds, the Episcopal Church’s Middle East global partnerships officer. ENS Photo/Lynette Wilson